maldevelopment

n. 畸形, 变形

词形变化

maldevelopments 复数 maldevelopments

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The state of an organism or an organisation that did not develop in the "normal" way (used in medicine, e.g. "brain maldevelopment of a fetus").

  2. 2.

    Under the philosophy of sustainable development, poor economic, human or social development.

词源

From French maldéveloppement, introduced as a human and social development term in France in the 1990s, to replace the words malformation or développement anormal. The word can be broken down as mal- (“ill”) + development.

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