(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.
Teratoid
Definition:
(a.) Resembling a monster; abnormal; of a pathological growth, exceedingly complex or highly organized.
Example Sentences:
(1) No mesenchymal elements other than muscle, and no indication of possible teratoid origin of this tumor were observed.
(2) When thyroid tissue of teratoid origin is found, surgical removal is advised on account of the malignant potentialities of these tumors.
(3) In a retrospective analysis, we evaluated the occurrence of toxic side effects and the frequency of intra- and postoperative complications in 128 patients with retroperitoneal teratoid bulky tumor.
(4) Mya collected at Dennysville had pericardial mesotheliomas and teratoid siphon anomalies in addition to gonadal neoplasms.
(5) In addition, teratoid medulloepithelioma, a tumor arising from the ciliary epithelium, can contain a rhabdomyoblastic component, often in combination with other heteroplastic elements.
(6) Teratoids developed at the place of implantation are represented by the derivatives of all germ layers, as well as by some organic structures.
(7) A case of teratoid tumor of the oral cavity in the newborn is presented.
(8) Because of its unique morphological appearance, which has never been reported, and its relatively indolent behavior after chemotherapy and radiotherapy, we believe that this is a distinctive primitive teratoid tumor which may be classified as nasal blastoma.
(9) The various histopathological classifications of teratoid lesions have not been discussed in detail either, because for the most part they have been evolved to serve a specific prognostic purpose on either an empirical basis or on certain histogenetic assumptions.
(10) However, some cases may be teratoid in origin, as has been suggested for the analogous lesion in the testis.
(11) An unique case is presented, never mentioned before the world specialized literature, concerning an intraarticular teratoid formation in the knee.
(12) We present a case of a very rare naso-sinusal malignant, teratoid neoplasia, recently called "terato-carcinosarcoma".
(13) The susceptibility of the opossum eye to an ENU-induced intraocular teratoid medulloepithelioma extended over the period from 1 to between 3 and 4 weeks of age and was correlated with the differentiation of the apparent target cell, the nonpigmented ciliary epithelium of the pars ciliaris retinae.
(14) A unilateral teratoid Wilms' tumor was removed 2.5 weeks after the institution of chemotherapy.
(15) The World Health Organisation histological classification of medulloepithelioma was applied, but some problems were encountered, particularly where the presence of heteroplastic brain tissue was used as a criterion for teratoid tumour and where rosettes were used as a criterion for malignancy.
(16) We report a rare tumor of the nasopharynx in the neonate: the teratoid or hairy polyp.
(17) In 33 patients with malignant teratoid testicular tumours, the retro-peritoneal lymph nodes were surgically removed after lymphograms had been carried out.
(18) Dysgenesis of the ovaries and the testes of testicular feminization syndrome should be regarded as likely soil for the development of teratoid tumors.
(19) Since 1955 to 1975 the authors observed one hundred sixty patients with teratoid formations of the pararectal cellular tissue.
(20) In a four-year-old boy a malignant teratoid medulloepithelioma of the ciliary body was removed by means of an 11.0 X 11.0 mm "block excision".