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CONFORMATION

Volume 3 · 84 words · 1778 Edition

the particular consistence and texture of the parts of any body, and their disposition to compose a whole.

in medicine, that make and construction of the human body, which is peculiar to every individual.

Hence, a mala conformatio signifies some fault in the first rudiments; whereby a person comes into the world crooked, or with some of the viscera or cavities unduly framed or proportioned. Many are subject to incurable asthma's, from a too small capacity of the thorax, and the like vicious conformations.