Teratology

TERATOLOGIA

Volume XI · p. 1197 · 1953

English translation · Testo originale italiano

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

Article illustration — TERATOLOGY. - It is the science that studies monsters in their genesis and characteristics. A monster is defined as an individual that presents one or more anomalies so severe as to render him gravely aberrant from the norm. The distinction between a monster and an individual

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“TERATOLOGIA.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI (1953), p. 1197. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/teratologia.