{"id":7794,"date":"2019-05-22T16:00:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/dysmorphology\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:00:43","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:00:43","slug":"dysmorphology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/dysmorphology\/","title":{"rendered":"Dysmorphology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abnormal physical or morphological growth, especially of a particular anatomical feature. &nbsp;As a branch of medicine, it combines concepts, knowledge, and techniques from the fields of embryology, clinical genetics and paediatrics. &nbsp;Term first used by <a href=\"http:\/\/sfari.org\/resources\/sfari-wiki\/dysmorphology\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/sfari.org\/resources\/sfari-wiki\/dysmorphology  &amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David W. Smith<\/a> (1926-1981) in the 1960s to describe the study of human congenital malformations (i.e., birth defects), particularly those affecting the morphology of the individual.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"congenital_malformations\">Congenital malformations<\/a>, <a href=\"growth\">Growth<\/a>, <a href=\"morphogenesis\">Morphogenesis<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abnormal physical or morphological growth, especially of a particular anatomical feature. &nbsp;As a branch of medicine, it combines concepts, knowledge, and techniques from the fields of embryology, clinical genetics and paediatrics. &nbsp;Term first used by David W. Smith (1926-1981) in the 1960s to describe the study of human congenital malformations (i.e., birth defects), particularly those &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/dysmorphology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dysmorphology&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}