Relating to or characterized by incomplete or partial monstrous development in an organism.
From hemiterata + -ic suffix. This scientific adjective emerged alongside hemiterata in developmental biology and teratology.
When biologists describe a hemiteratic organism, they mean something developed abnormally but not completely so—like a frog born with an extra partial leg instead of a completely deformed limb.
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