(a.) Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cancer patients showed abnormally high plasma free tryptophan levels.
(2) Among the pathological or abnormal ECGs (25.6%) prevailed the vegetative-functional heart diseases with 92%.
(3) Clonal abnormalities involving chromosomes 3 and 21 were noted in two patients.
(4) Clinical signs of disease developed as early as 15 days after transition to the experimental diets and included impaired vision, decreased response to external stimuli, and abnormal gait.
(5) Among a family of 8 children, 4 presented typical clinical and biological abnormalities related to mannosidosis.
(6) Also we found that the lipid deposition in the glomeruli of patients with Alagille syndrome is related to an abnormal lipid metabolism, which is the consequence of severe cholestasis.
(7) The secondary leukemia that occurred in these patients could be distinguished from the secondary leukemia that occurs after treatment with alkylating agents by the following: a shorter latency period; a predominance of monocytic or myelomonocytic features; and frequent cytogenetic abnormalities involving 11q23.
(8) Immediate postexercise two-dimensional echocardiography demonstrated exercise-induced changes in 8 (47%) patients (2 with normal and 6 with abnormal results from rest studies).
(9) The psychiatric experts classified 11 of the perpetrators as "normal," 3 as abnormal, and 2 as psychotic.
(10) Erythrocyte membrane choline transport is abnormally high in chronic renal failure.
(11) Although the longest period required for resolving weakness was three days, the MRI, the CT and the electroencephalogram revealed no significant abnormality.
(12) Aside from these characteristic findings of HCC, it was important to reveal the following features for the diagnosis of well differentiated type of small HCC: variable thickening or distortion of trabecular structure in association with nuclear crowding, acinar formation, selective cytoplasmic accumulation of Mallory bodies, nuclear abnormalities consisting of thickening of nucleolus, hepatic cords in close contact with bile ducts or blood vessels, and hepatocytes growing in a fibrous environment.
(13) Muscle wasting in MYD may be explained by these abnormalities as well.
(14) Associated renal and other abnormalities were common.
(15) Once the normal variations are mastered, appreciation of retinal, choroidal, optic nerve, and vitreal abnormalities is possible.
(16) Eight other children (20%) had normal or borderline elevation of CPK-MB fraction and EKG abnormalities combined with abnormal echocardiograms or radionuclide angiograms, and were considered to have sustained cardiac concussion.
(17) Several investigators have attempted to correlate chromosomal abnormalities with Cornelia de Lange Syndrome (CLS), but none of them have been conclusive.
(18) It is possible that the IgE that linked abnormally with the propofol had specific binding sites for the phenyl nucleus and the isopropyl groups, which are present in propofol and many other drugs.
(19) Of 185 with readable histology, 14.6% were clinically and histologically abnormal; 19.5% were clinically abnormal but histologically normal; and 15.7% were clinically normal and histologically abnormal.
(20) Mice also had a decreased ability to develop delayed-type hypersensitivity reactions while being given cadmium; this abnormality also returned toward normal after withdrawal of cadmium.
Angulation
Definition:
(n.) A making angular; angular formation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Taken together, these data indicate that the regulation of probing angulation in clinical measurement of GAL with the TAPP is an important determinant of the reproducibility of periodontal probing.
(2) The angulation at the last follow-up averaged 5.4 degrees.
(3) Angulation problems due to anatomic limitations, however, still remain.
(4) Changes in third molar angulation from pretreatment to posttreatment for the two groups were compared for statistical differences using a Student's t-test.
(5) Narrowing and angulation of these veins could result in elevated back pressure favoring the formation of a transudate.
(6) With the straight bevel with a slight angulation (40 degrees), the limit of the cavity-filling joint is clear.
(7) The more serious sequelae must be ascribed either to rotary deformity or to ulnar angulation at the fracture-site.
(8) Both lower limbs were abnormal: the left had a single slender long bone articulating with the foot, which was markedly dorsiflexed and had only 2 toes; on the right the femur was angulated, the fibula was absent, and only 4 metatarsals were present with 4 toes.
(9) Head posture was evaluated by the craniocervical angulation and airway as nasopharyngeal airway size.
(10) The following signs in the preoperative radiographs were predictive of unfavorable outcome: small head fragment, comminution of the calcar femorale, and varus angulation of the head.
(11) Carotid angiography, which was conducted in all cases, revealed a richly vascularized tumor in the region of the carotid artery bifurcation with characteristic "angulation" and "cuff" signs.
(12) There is a small but statistically significant decrease in U-VS angulation and increase in nasal septal deviation in patients with sinusitis.
(13) In summary, endoscopic dilatation for postgastroplasty strictures is a useful and effective technique, obviating the need for operative revision in the majority of patients; however, when the stenosis is associated with channel angulation, dilatation is almost uniformly unsuccessful.
(14) Malunion (angulation greater than 10 degrees) occurred in three patients and there was some loss of knee motion (less than 90 degrees of flexion) in one patient.
(15) Radiographic evaluation of these fractures using axial, lateral, anteroposterior, and oblique medial projection (Broden's view) with varying tube angulation toward the head and computerized axial tomography in two planes, coronal and transverse, were done.
(16) The findings are that most of the upper central incisors in linguoversional anterior deep over bite exist crown-root angulation in a labiolingual direction.
(17) The tip, 2.2 mm phi, of the BF-2.2 T angulates like a conventional bronchofiberscope, and this is the main characteristic of this instrument.
(18) The CT scan provided a three-dimensional study of the underlying bone, to determine the position, angulation, and depth of the fixture to be used.
(19) However there were definite neurogenic changes including type grouping and angulated fibers.
(20) An uncommon complication of percutaneous insertion of the titanium Greenfield filter is angulation at discharge with clustering of the limbs to one side of the vena cava.