What's the difference between anomaly and atrophy?

Anomaly


Definition:

  • (n.) Deviation from the common rule; an irregularity; anything anomalous.
  • (n.) The angular distance of a planet from its perihelion, as seen from the sun. This is the true anomaly. The eccentric anomaly is a corresponding angle at the center of the elliptic orbit of the planet. The mean anomaly is what the anomaly would be if the planet's angular motion were uniform.
  • (n.) The angle measuring apparent irregularities in the motion of a planet.
  • (n.) Any deviation from the essential characteristics of a specific type.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In addition to the aqueduct other associated inner ear anomalies have been identified in 60% of this population including: enlarged vestibule (14); enlarged vestibule and lateral semicircular canal (7); enlarged vestibule and hypoplastic cochlea (4); and hypoplastic cochlea (4).
  • (2) Sixteen patients (27%) manifested anomalies of the urinary tract: 12 had markedly altered kidneys, 8 of which were unilateral and ipsilateral to the diaphragmatic defect.
  • (3) Gardner proposed that anomalies at the exit of the fourth ventricle produce a communicating syringomyelia.
  • (4) The family history and associated anomalies were recorded and particular attention was paid to temperature gradients and neurocirculatory deficits with respect to band location.
  • (5) It facilitated the acquisition of quantitative velocity information with standard Doppler ultrasound techniques by identifying areas of high velocity or turbulent flow and was invaluable in the assessment of anomalous pulmonary venous drainage occurring either as an isolated anomaly or in conjunction with complex intracardiac lesions.
  • (6) Aplasia of the trachea associated with multiple congenital anomalies is described in a stillborn male foetus with single umbilical artery.
  • (7) The anomaly may represent a hitherto overlooked but easily obtainable diagnostic marker.
  • (8) Though the problems associated with Robin sequence may be numerous, especially if the primary cause of the sequence is a multiple anomaly syndrome, the most acute problems in affected newborns is upper airway obstruction.
  • (9) Bidrin treatment of quail embryos results in axial anomalies as well as malformations of the beak and the limbs.
  • (10) Three mouse models of male-limited, hybrid-type sterility are available: the sterility controlled by the T-t genetic complex, the hybrid sterility system including the Hst-1 gene, and the sterility of carriers of various chromosomal anomalies.
  • (11) The differentiation of congenital anomaly from fracture can be difficult.
  • (12) Orbital hypertelorism, strictly defined as an increase in bony interorbital distance, is not itself an isolated syndrome, but is instead an anomaly that may occur as either part of a syndrome or malformation sequence.
  • (13) The authors evaluated four patients with multiple anomalies consistent with CHARGE syndrome.
  • (14) Anatomical data of the postmortem examination and histologic anomalies of the aorta confirm the diagnosis.
  • (15) There is evidence to indicate that these losses are due to congenital ossicular anomalies, eustachian tube dysfunction from craniofacial malformation, and cochlear involvement that is greatest for high frequencies.
  • (16) Nevertheless, a wide clinical spectrum was found varying from pictures correlating with the topography and extent of the MRI-detected anomaly to conditions indicating wider cerebral involvement.
  • (17) These anomalies significantly reduce the ability of the E. gracilis W3BUL mutant to serve as a cytoplasmic control in the phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetase system.
  • (18) The clinical, hemodynamic, and angiographic features of the anomaly are presented.
  • (19) Minor and major congenital anomalies were studied in 395 neonatal risk children and 107 normal school children at the age of nine in the context of follow-up of the risk children.
  • (20) We performed light and electron microscopic studies on the temporal bones of a patient with genetic aplastic deafness, in which the right ear had a Mondini-type defect and the left ear a Michel-type anomaly.

Atrophy


Definition:

  • (n.) A wasting away from want of nourishment; diminution in bulk or slow emaciation of the body or of any part.
  • (v. t.) To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken.
  • (v. i.) To waste away; to dwindle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Muscle weakness and atrophy were most marked in the distal parts of the legs, especially in the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles, and then spread to the thighs and gluteal muscles.
  • (2) We studied the effects of the localisation and size of ischemic brain infarcts and the influence of potential covariates (gender, age, time since infarction, physical handicap, cognitive impairment, aphasia, cortical atrophy and ventricular size) on 'post-stroke depression'.
  • (3) The findings confirm and quantitate the severe atrophy of the neostriatum, in addition to demonstrating a severe loss of cerebral cortex and subcortical white matter in HD.
  • (4) Gross brain atrophy was slight and equal in both groups.
  • (5) Light microscopy of both apneics and snorers revealed mucous gland hypertrophy with ductal dilation and focal squamous metaplasia, disruption of muscle bundles by infiltrating mucous glands, focal atrophy of muscle fibers, and extensive edema of the lamina propria with vascular dilation.
  • (6) Fascia TM grafts atrophied in 35 of 43 ears (80%), and perichondrium atrophied in 8 of 20 ears (40%).
  • (7) The clinical and postmortem findings of a patient with Lewy body pathology combined with multiple-system atrophy are described.
  • (8) In a final experiment, prostatic atrophy in castrate rats was not enhanced by either adrenalectomy or flutamide treatment.
  • (9) Mucosal drying medications and senile salivary gland atrophy seemed to contribute to the high frequency of sicca in this population with a lesser proportion of the subjects demonstrating previously undiagnosed Sjögren's and possible Sjögren's syndrome.
  • (10) The observations support the idea that the function of pericytes in the choriocapillaris, the major source of nutrition for the retinal photoreceptors, resides in their contractility, and that pericytes do not remove necrotic endothelium during capillary atrophy.
  • (11) Gyrate atrophy is a hereditary chorioretinal degenerative disease caused by a deficiency of the mitochondrial enzyme, ornithine aminotransferase (OAT).
  • (12) Computer-aided axial tomography revealed progressive development of atrophy of the left hemisphere and compensatory dilatation of the ventricles.
  • (13) Atrophy was present in 44% of TIA patients, 68% of PRIND patients and 82% of completed stroke patients.
  • (14) Portal vein ligation resulted in testicular atrophy and low serum testosterone concentrations.
  • (15) Accessory gland atrophy was restodred following the treatment with insulin and much improved with insulin plus hCG.
  • (16) We present a patient with unilateral progressive painless loss of vision leading to optic atrophy and blindness.
  • (17) Six biopsies could not be evaluated (advanced atrophy?).
  • (18) The degree of necrosis of ciliary epithelium and atrophy of ciliary processes are directly dependent on the dose of action.
  • (19) A second operation, total adrenalectomy, resulted in an improvement of the clinical and laboratory findings such as hypokalemia, high blood pressure, muscle atrophy and moon face.
  • (20) Fiber atrophy of types I and II was equal in the soleus, and that of type II was greater than the type I atrophy in both regions of the plantaris.