(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.
Bruit
Definition:
(n.) Report; rumor; fame.
(n.) An abnormal sound of several kinds, heard on auscultation.
(v. t.) To report; to noise abroad.
Example Sentences:
(1) The disappearance of the bruit was associated with poor renal function.
(2) Two hundred and forty-one residents were examined for carotid bruits and signs of previous stroke.
(3) Cerebral angiography was performed in 18 of the patients with carotid bruits.
(4) Major intra-abdominal arteriovenous fistulas usually present with a machinery bruit over a pulsatile mass, but may present more subtly with pain and otherwise unexplained hematuria.
(5) An apparently primitive cervical bruit corresponded to a lesion of the carotid bifurcation in 61% of the cases (positive predictive value) whereas a normal bifurcation was detected in 70% of the cases in which the cervical bruit was considered as secondary (negative predictive value); the diagnostic accuracy of the "critical auscultation" has a value therefore of 63%, with a sensitivity of 84% and a specificity of 40%.
(6) In frank strokes it was 3.7%; in transient ischemia, 0.77%; and zero for chronic ischemia and asymptomatic bruits.
(7) Patients with HS bruits had a stroke incidence of 24 per cent and a transient ischemic attack (TIA) incidence of 16 per cent, which were significantly higher (P greater than 0.01) compared to the patients with NHS bruits (4.8% incidence of stroke and 3.2% incidence of TIA).
(8) Vascular disease, epigastric bruit, and impaired renal function were commoner in the renal artery stenosis patients than in the 81 with normal arteriograms, but there were no features pathognomonic of stenosis.
(9) Patients with non-focal neurological symptoms and carotid bruit were more likely to have a significant stenosis than asymptomatic patients with carotid bruit (P = 0.0069 Fisher's Exact Test).
(10) On cardiac examination, a pansystolic bruit and a diastolic rumble were audible at the tricuspid focus.
(11) PAG vascular bruits were characteristic hemodynamic disorders.
(12) The TIAs developed in four patients with HS bruits and in two patients with NHS bruits.
(13) All three patients suffered from pain in the abdomen and back, a palpable pulsatile abdominal mass and an audible continuous harsh bruit.
(14) The prevalence of asymptomatic carotid bruit is 4 per cent in the general population aged over 40 years.
(15) No association was found for diastolic blood pressure, myocardial infarction, angina, diabetes, or carotid bruits.
(16) Phonoangiography, quantitative analysis of arterial bruits, has been shown to provide accurate noninvasive diagnosis of uncomplicated carotid arterial stenosis, but had not been tested where cervical bruits from other sources were present.
(17) A periorbital bruit and venous engorgement of the palpebral and bulbar conjunctivae are pathognomonic features.
(18) Bruits were recorded at the skin surface, analyzed by a minicomputer, and the degree of arterial stenosis estimated using a recently derived theory of sound production by turbulent blood flow.
(19) Phonoangiography, as a noninvasive quantitative analysis of arterial bruits, was conducted just prior to standard invasive radiographic angiography in 135 patients.