A medical condition characterized by lack of bodily form or abnormal shapelessness; extreme deformity.
From Modern Latin amorphia, derived from Greek a- (without) + morphe (form). Medical terminology adopted this term in the 18th century to describe severe physical abnormalities.
In medical history, doctors needed words for rare conditions they'd never seen before, so they borrowed from Greek like 'amorphia' to sound scientific while basically saying 'this person's body doesn't have the usual shape'—it's how medicine built its vocabulary of precision.
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