Thalidomide is an infamous teratogen. Women can be exposed to this substance while trying to control nausea during pregnancy. Thalidomide was given (mostly in the late fifties) as a medication to control the nausea (it was removed from the market in 1961). Thalidomide causes severe malformation risks to a developing fetus.
adjective. The definition of naive is being immature, unaware or overly trusting. An example of naive is someone who believes that the moon is made of cheese because their mother said it was.
A theoretical (or conceptual) definition is an abstract concept that defines a term in an academic discipline. Without a falsifiable operational definition, conceptual definitions assume both knowledge and acceptance of the theories that it depends on. A hypothetical construct may serve as a theoretical definition, as can a stipulative definition.