Deformity is an English word with synonyms like malformation or affliction. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Deformity in a sentence
Deformity meaning
- The state of being deformed.
- An ugly or misshapen feature or characteristic.
Synonyms of Deformity
Using Deformity
- The main meaning on this page is: The state of being deformed. | An ugly or misshapen feature or characteristic.
- Useful related words include: malformation, misshapenness, affliction, disfigurement.
- In the example corpus, deformity often appears in combinations such as: deformity and, the deformity, deformity in.
Context around Deformity
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 8 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Deformity
- In this selection, "deformity" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, spinal, existing, skeletal, correction, medical and affects stand out and add context to how "deformity" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a mutation deformity or anything and a shoulder deformity she s. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "deformity" sits close to words such as abaribe, abbasids and abstentions, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with deformity
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
People cannot avoid Haglund's deformity in every case. (9 words)
If left untreated it can often lead to joint deformity. (10 words)
The deformity affects around one in 5,000 women and is incurable. (12 words)
In her case, over the years, her deformity caused one of the spinal vertebrae to Jump over another because of a congenital defect in her spine, putting severe pressure on the nerve roots, which was the cause of severe pain. (40 words)
Six years and two pregnancies later, Dammann recalls that even though pectus excavatum (PE), as it was later diagnosed as, is the most common chest wall skeletal deformity, medical practitioners had previously not paid much attention to it. (38 words)
A 14-year-old girl from Malegaon’s Nimbait village with a severe spine deformity was operated on by a team of doctors at the State-run GT Hospital. (29 words)
Example sentences (20)
The company offers trauma and deformity correction products; scoliosis procedures for the treatment of spinal deformity; and sports medicine and other products.
But with an existing deformity in her knee from a botched surgery that also left her with a limp, Abakar faced a new set of challenges back home.
Six years and two pregnancies later, Dammann recalls that even though pectus excavatum (PE), as it was later diagnosed as, is the most common chest wall skeletal deformity, medical practitioners had previously not paid much attention to it.
Back-seat passenger Kashard Kashid suffered an injury to his scalp, deformity and injury to his left shoulder, and a fracture to his right shoulder blade.
Speaking on the surgeries done, Ogundipe said 11 patients with cleft lips were undergoing surgery to repair the deformity.
But there was one response that shook me greatly, it was the response of a ten year old lad who seemed to have deformity with his feet.
It usually isn't a mutation, deformity, or anything like that, but rather just how the character is drawn.
The world has come to understand the need for people to embrace who they are and eliminate stereotypes surrounding obesity because it’s no deformity.
A 14-year-old girl from Malegaon’s Nimbait village with a severe spine deformity was operated on by a team of doctors at the State-run GT Hospital.
An orphaned young woman, named Sida, from South Sudan, in Africa, has come to MN for surgical repair of a shoulder deformity she’s had since birth.
He said a full capsule removal carried some "significant risks" of bleeding, deformity and damage to the lungs or chest wall.
I asked him if he had any deformity or issues and he said no.
The deformity affects around one in 5,000 women and is incurable.
The deformity, Polydactyly, is a rare birth defect more common among males.
Though we’ve disavowed Shakespeare’s association between deformity and evil, the burden of being perceived as different persists, and it can generate isolation and rage.
Haglund's deformity: Causes, symptoms, and treatmentFor full functionality, it is necessary to enable JavaScript.
If left untreated it can often lead to joint deformity.
In her case, over the years, her deformity caused one of the spinal vertebrae to Jump over another because of a congenital defect in her spine, putting severe pressure on the nerve roots, which was the cause of severe pain.
Operation Smile provides reconstructive facial surgery to indigent children and young adults born with cleft lip and cleft palate deformity.
People cannot avoid Haglund's deformity in every case.
Common combinations with deformity
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- deformity and 6×
- the deformity 5×
- deformity in 3×
- haglund's deformity 3×
- deformity of 3×
- and deformity 2×
- deformity or 2×
- any deformity 2×
- joint deformity 2×