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In [[medicine]], a "monster" is usually an infant suffering from congenital abnormalities that often kill or cripple the patient or threaten to make the patient unsightly in the extreme and likely to elicit only revulsion from all who look upon him, absent a corrective measure such as plastic surgery.

In [[medicine]], a "monster" is usually an infant suffering from congenital abnormalities that often kill or cripple the patient or threaten to make the patient unsightly in the extreme and likely to elicit only revulsion from all who look upon him, absent a corrective measure such as plastic surgery.

The word ''monster'' could also apply to the field of [[biology]], to encompass any hybrid creature that a biologist might build in his laboratory. Most biologists dislike this term, because of its connotation of ''horror''--which is, strictly speaking, the state of shuddering from fright (from the [[Latin]] ''horreo'' I shudder) or something that makes one shudder. Yet the word ''monster'' would seem to be quite apt, if one takes the word at its original meaning: a warning against, in this case, ethically reprehensible treatment of the stuff of human life as though it were of no greater value than that of animal life.

The word ''monster'' could also apply to the field of [[biology]], to encompass any hybrid creature that a biologist might build in his laboratory. Most biologists dislike this term, because of its connotation of ''horror''--which is, strictly speaking, the state of shuddering from fright (from the [[Latin]] ''horreo'' I shudder) or something that makes one shudder. Yet the word ''monster'', if one takes the word at its original meaning, might suggest a warning against a treatment of the stuff of human life in an ethically or morally reprehensible manner.

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