He told her stories designed to elicit pity — that he dug ditches as a boy and needed 43 operations for malformed limbs.

It’s not fluent, it’s broken, the sounds are malformed, if you like.

"We found four more intervals with high levels of Hg concentrations and high numbers of malformed spores in the 1.3 to 2 million years following the extinction interval," explains Remco Bos.

The cells themselves become malformed, causing episodes of extreme pain.

His death in August 2022 was due to a malformed blood vessel in his brain.