a. [f. TERATOLOGY + -IC + -AL.] Of or pertaining to teratology; treating of monstrosities or abnormal formations in animals or plants; involving monstrosity, monstrous. Also Teratologic a. (rare).
1857. E. C. Otté, trans. De Quatrefages’ Rambles Nat., I. 346, note. The state of the Cysticercus was a normal, and not a teratological or abnormal state.
1878. N. Amer. Rev., CXXVII. 507. Teratological researches.
1894. Naturalist, 56. Singular from the teratologic viewpoint.
1898. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., V. 708. Works on Teratological Anatomy.
1909. J. W. Jenkinson, Exper. Embryol., 155. Experiments … of the highest interest from a general teratological point of view.
