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Answer for the clue "Irregular ", 8 letters:
abnormal

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Word definitions for abnormal in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm; "abnormal powers of concentration"; "abnormal amounts of rain"; "abnormal circumstances"; "an abnormal interest in food" [ant: normal ] departing from the normal in e.g. intelligence ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES normal/abnormal ▪ They thought their son’s behaviour was perfectly normal. ▪ Were there any signs of abnormal behaviour? normal/abnormal ▪ The test enables doctors to detect abnormal cells. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ...

Usage examples of abnormal.

It is not designed to circumscribe healthful reproduction, but to serve as an effectual hindrance to abnormal deviations.

Excessive marital indulgence produces abnormal conditions of the generative organs and not unfrequently leads to incurable disease.

That fecundation sometimes takes place from right to left and thus produces these abnormal variations.

It is difficult to give any satisfactory explanation of these abnormal developments.

Hotel, and has been attended by the most happy results, yet the cases have presented so great a diversity of abnormal features, and have required so many variations in the course of treatment, to be met successfully, that we frankly acknowledge our inability to so instruct the unprofessional reader as to enable him to detect the various systemic faults common to this ever-varying disease, and adjust remedies to them, so as to make the treatment uniformly successful.

A vial of that which is first passed in the morning, should be sent with the history of the case, as chronic rheumatism effects characteristic changes in this excretion, which clearly and unmistakably indicate the abnormal condition of the fluids of the body upon which the disease depends.

Assimilative debility is indicated by an impaired digestion and a consequent suppression, or an abnormal state of the secretions.

The arrest of the abnormal breaking down of the tissues, and the prevention of emaciation.

Menstruation may fail to be established in consequence of organic defects, or from some abnormal condition of the blood and nervous system.

Non-appearance, as well as suppression of the menses, may result from an abnormal state of the blood.

Such persons may be accustomed to luxurious living, and there is evidently a predisposition to abnormal activity of the alimentary functions.

As these several abnormal conditions and diseases will be treated of elsewhere in this volume, we omit their further consideration here.

In offering a few hints for the domestic management of these abnormal conditions, we would at the same time remark, that, while health may be regained by skillful treatment, recovery will be gradual.

The presence of only a few of the symptoms which we have enumerated is evidence of abnormal weakness, which demands treatment.

On examination, we found a very varicose or enlarged condition of the left spermatic veins, and gave it as our opinion that the seminal loss was wholly due to this abnormal condition and could only be cured by an operation that would remove the varicocele.