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Abnormalities

Abnormality \Ab`nor*mal"i*ty\, n.; pl. Abnormalities.

  1. The state or quality of being abnormal; variation; irregularity.
    --Darwin.

  2. Something abnormal.

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abnormalities

n. (plural of abnormality English)

Usage examples of "abnormalities".

Search for damage, flaws, any abnormalities that might have contributed to the use of maximum force.

If anyone gets it wrong, abnormalities and diseases multiply all along the line, and these will show up earlier and earlier in young lives.

Calibrating one to pick out subtle abnormalities in different types of humanoids—each of which had a spectrum of what constituted “normal” within their species—was still yielding too many false positives.

Farmers in central Pennsylvania, for example, began to observe abnormalities in their animals when Three Mile Island Unit One opened in 1974.

But government investigators turned in reports that baldly denied a majority of the abnormalities, which had already been witnessed by neutral observers.

Feccheimer, "Congenital Abnormalities in Cattle and Their General Etiological Factors," {Journal of Dairy Science} 52, No.

Life-shortening anemia and other blood abnormalities, benign tumors, cataracts, and lowered fertility are other random effects attributed to radiation exposure.

He read on, noticing that the classic features of the disease included abnormalities in vision as well as bladder dysfunction.

He immediately began scanning the films for abnormalities similar to those he'd seen with Marino, Lucas, Collins, and McCarthy.

I didn't know Marino was dead and I'd noticed some very subtle abnormalities on her film.

My children, even children by women who have these same abnormalities, have always been fully human.

She wondered how many other people she had known over the years were afflicted with this set of acquired abnormalities or something similar.

There are many variables--the age of the woman, any physiological abnormalities or diseases, the sperm quality and quantity.

Subsequently, a report and interpretation was obtained from Baltimore, and the report indicated no abnormalities at all and was a perfectly normal electroencephalogram.

In Battle for the Mind, William, Sargant pointed out: It should be more widely known that electrical recordings of the human brain show that it is particularly sensitive to rhythmic stimulation by percussion and bright light among other things and certain rates of rhythm can build up recordable abnormalities of brain function and explosive states of tension sufficient even to produce convulsive fits in predisposed subjects.