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A person or object that is not normal.

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Not conforming to rule or system; deviating from the usual or normal type.

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Of or pertaining to that which is irregular, in particular, behaviour that deviates from norms of social propriety or accepted standards of mental health.

The child's abnormal behavior was disturbing to those around him.

Terry was extremely worried about the abnormal bump she found on her leg.

Lord Rayleigh had an interest in abnormal psychological investigations, and became a member and vice president of the Society for Psychical Research.

Her abnormal enthusiasm made others question where her joy came from.

The same dignity appeared in the grave beauty of his features, though the abnormal height of his cranium afforded an opportunity for ridicule of which the comedians made full use.

In addition to these abnormal cases, the life of certain insects is naturally more prolonged than usual.

Abnormal movements are symptoms of underlying disorders.

The young children were asked to pick out which of the items in the group were abnormal.

In some cases, the abnormal movements are the only symptoms.

The result is an abnormal number of chromosmes in the daughter cells produced by that cell division.

Some of the earliest balloon observations made the gradient increase with the height, but such a result is now regarded as abnormal.

The occurrence of the lake basins in the lowland belts on either side of the Niagara cuesta is an abnormal feature, not to be explained by ordinary erosion, which can produce only valleys.

The question as to whether the motion was due to an irregular distribution of the earth's atmosphere, thus involving abnormal variations in the refractive index, was also investigated; here, again, negative results were obtained.

It would seem that Julius Caesar encountered the Germani under somewhat abnormal conditions.

By thus devoting itself to material interests, the papacy contemporary with the last Capetians lost its moral greatness Abuse of and fell in the opinion of the peoples; and it did itself no less injury by the abnormal extension of the bounds of its absolutism.

The effect of the abnormal conditions is probably to stop the production of, or weaken or destroy the protective enzymes or antitoxins, the presence of which normally confers immunity on the leaf.

But the great diversity of these abnormal cases as shown in the examples cited above suggests the use of great caution in formulating definite morphological theories upon them.

If, for instance, the testes fail to develop normally, the secretion which they discharge into the blood is abnormal in character and amount, with the result that the characters of the remotest parts of the body are more or less profoundly affected.

If, however, a series of leaves from the same tree be examined in pairs, the fact that one leaf from the tree is known to possess an abnormal number of veins makes it probable that the next leaf chosen from the same tree will also be abnormal-or, in other words, the fact that leaves are borne by the same tree establishes a correlation between them.

Hemangioma-A benign skin tumor composed of abnormal blood vessels.

It is often associated with an abnormal or malfunctioning eustachian tube, which causes negative pressure in the middle ear and leaking of fluid from tiny blood vessels, or capillaries, into the middle ear.

Cognitive-behavioral therapy, which teaches people how to change abnormal thoughts and behavior, is also used.

It should be suspected in older children with abnormal bowel habits, especially a history of constipation dating back to infancy and ribbon-like stools.

If that copy carries the abnormal gene, they have WAS.

The abnormal blood flow often means that less oxygen is sent into circulation throughout the body.

The level of bilirubin in a newborn's blood serum is measured to determine if the circulating level of bilirubin is normal or abnormal.

The test has a high rate of false-positives; as few as 10 percent of women with abnormal results go on to have babies with congenital defects.

Since it is hypothesized that serotonin activity is abnormal in trichotillomania, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are commonly given to improve symptoms.

A B12 vitamin may meet the needs of individuals who find themselves losing their hair in abnormal amounts.

Abnormal findings may indicate the need for further prenatal testing.

Ultrasound can determine the visibility of abnormal fat on the liver.

Mite-galls, or acarocecidia, are abnormal growths of the leaves of plants, produced by microscopic Acaridea of the genus Phytoptus (gall-mites), and consist of little tufts of hairs, or of thickened portions of the leaves, usually most hypertrophied on the upper surface, so that the lower is drawn up into the interior, producing a bursiform cavity.

There a man wins local fame as an ascetic with abnormal powers, or a wife, because Alcestis-like she sacrificed herself for her husband and immolated herself on his pyre.

He suspended an archbishop of Sens (1136) who had neglected to take into consideration the appeal to Rome, summoned an archbishop of Milan to Rome to receive the pallium from the pope's hands, lavished exemptions, and extended the right of appeal to such abnormal lengths that a Byzantine ambassador is reported to have exclaimed to Lothair III., Your Pope Innocent is not a bishop, but an emperor."

His first wife, Catherine, daughter of Magnus I., duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, bore him in 1 533 his eldest son Eric. This union was neither long nor happy, but the blame for its infelicity is generally attributed to the lady, whose abnormal character was reflected and accentuated in her unhappy son.

The process of human development Rothe regards as necessarily taking an abnormal form and passing through the phase of sin.

This abnormal condition necessitates a fresh creative act, that of salvation, which was, however, from the first, part of the divine plan.

Difference in intensity is not a wholly satisfactory ground of distinction; abnormal physical conditions apart, an image may have an intensity far greater than that of a sense-given impression.

Catheter-based procedures may be performed to open stenotic valves or vessels, widen the septal opening between the atria, or close abnormal vessels or certain septal defects.

Lymphangioma-A benign skin tumor composed of abnormal lymph vessels.

Abnormal food intake and purging may result in abnormal nutrition.

Teeth may show abnormal signs of wear on the chewing surfaces or decay in areas of tight overlap.

Abnormal movements are broadly classified as either hyperkinetic (too much movement) and hypokinetic (too little movement).

Hydrocephalus is an abnormal expansion of cavities, called ventricles, within the brain, which is caused by an abnormally large accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).

Again, considering the systems which start from the P normal ranges, we see that there is a probability p/(P+p) which vanishes in the limit, that a system selected at random from these will be in an abnormal state after a sufficient time.

The cock bird, when, to use the fenman's expression, he has not "his show on," and the hen at all seasons, offer no very remarkable deviation from ordinary sandpipers; outwardly there is nothing, except the unequal size of the two sexes, to rouse suspicion of any abnormal peculiarity.

In some domes, for instance in a dome at the university of Birmingham, a sound from one end of a diameter is heard very much more loudly quite close to the other end of the diameter than elsewhere, but in St Paul's Lord Rayleigh found that " the abnormal loudness with which a whisper is heard is not confined to the position diametrically opposite to that occupied by the whisperer, and therefore, it would appear, does not depend materially upon the symmetry of the dome.

When hydrocephalus occurs in infants, fusion of the skull bones is prevented, which leads to abnormal expansion of the skull.

They have a normal copy of the gene on one chromosome even if an abnormal gene is on the other because the abnormal gene is very rare.

However, women who have one abnormal copy of the WAS gene are designated as carriers.