Anamorphosis

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun ·same·as Anamorphism, 2.

II. Anamorphosis ·noun A morbid or monstrous development, or change of form, or degeneration.

III. Anamorphosis ·noun A distorted or monstrous projection or representation of an image on a plane or curved surface, which, when viewed from a certain point, or as reflected from a curved mirror or through a polyhedron, appears regular and in proportion; a deformation of an Image.