What's the difference between norma and normal?

Norma


Definition:

  • (n.) A norm; a principle or rule; a model; a standard.
  • (n.) A mason's or a carpenter's square or rule.
  • (n.) A templet or gauge.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Meanwhile some residents feel that Norma 26 , a policy meant to incentivise the construction of much-needed low-income housing, is actually driving gentrification.
  • (2) His approach was to view BBC2 as a channel of serendipity: a place where you might chance upon a nice surprise, such as the history series World War Two: Behind Closed Doors, Simon Schama's The American Future: A History, and, most recently, Norma Percy's acclaimed series Iran and the West.
  • (3) Severe macroorchism (1.8-4.5 times more, then anthropometric norma for this years) was found at 5 males in first group (10%), and in 8 males in second group (8%).
  • (4) Four of these seven also had hypocomplementemia, and this hypocomplementemia was characterized by decreased serum CH50, C3 beta1A or C3-C9 but norma serum C1, C4 and C2 by hemolytic assay.
  • (5) Then the Daily Telegraph reported this week that the DPP, Lloyd Babb, had “come under fire” after recently advising Norma’s family that his office’s position on charging the men was the same as in 2012.
  • (6) Norma said she had driven from Plano, near Dallas, to look after the 83-year-old, who suffered a cut and bruising.
  • (7) Margaret Attwater said her son, then 36, whose “on-again, off-again” relationship with Norma carried over about nine months, was “brought up not to hit women”.
  • (8) Norma Hulme, a 72-year-old from Northenden, says the prime minister would probably get chased away if he returned to the area.
  • (9) Margaret Attwater recalls her son being “in shock” in the aftermath of Norma’s death.
  • (10) Norma Raynes and colleagues describe a Department of Health-sponsored study which investigated the quality of care delivered in four key sectors of community residential care.
  • (11) Barnes rejected Attwater and Maris’s claims that Norma did not cry out in pain, that she remained conscious after the sex and only later collapsed after going for a swim to wash the blood from her legs.
  • (12) The best answer probably lies in something his wife says minutes earlier – again, a sentiment likely shared by Norma’s family: “It’s been a nightmare for years.
  • (13) That seems simple enough, but Norma King of High Barnet wrote five times asking Abbey to close her account.
  • (14) She stayed here for weeks on end.” Margaret Attwater says she tried to talk Norma into seeing a doctor about her drinking, which was constant.
  • (15) Algunos residentes opinan que la Norma 26, una política pública diseñada para incentivar la construcción de viviendas muy necesitadas para personas de bajos recursos, está de hecho promoviendo el aburguesamiento.
  • (16) An inquest in November 2014 found Norma bled to death after a sexual encounter with Attwater and his friend Paul Maris on an overnight camping trip on Ten Mile Beach, half an hour’s drive from Maclean.
  • (17) The courts might not hold him responsible for the calamity that took place on the beach in the early hours after Australia Day in 2011, but others would attempt to take matters into their own hands, provoked by the circumstances around the death of the woman who can only be legally identified as “Norma”.
  • (18) Neither Norma’s dismayed family nor police were satisfied with the DPP’s dropping the case and immediately pressed for the inquest.
  • (19) A sex act performed by Attwater in the back of Maris’s 4WD ruptured an artery inside Norma.
  • (20) Norma Torres had prepared the paperwork and was ready to apply.

Normal


Definition:

  • (a.) According to an established norm, rule, or principle; conformed to a type, standard, or regular form; performing the proper functions; not abnormal; regular; natural; analogical.
  • (a.) According to a square or rule; perpendicular; forming a right angle. Specifically: Of or pertaining to a normal.
  • (a.) Standard; original; exact; typical.
  • (a.) Denoting a solution of such strength that every cubic centimeter contains the same number of milligrams of the element in question as the number of its molecular weight.
  • (a.) Denoting certain hypothetical compounds, as acids from which the real acids are obtained by dehydration; thus, normal sulphuric acid and normal nitric acid are respectively S(OH)6, and N(OH)5.
  • (a.) Denoting that series of hydrocarbons in which no carbon atom is united with more than two other carbon atoms; as, normal pentane, hexane, etc. Cf. Iso-.
  • (a.) Any perpendicular.
  • (a.) A straight line or plane drawn from any point of a curve or surface so as to be perpendicular to the curve or surface at that point.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Patients with normal echocardiogram and ECG on admission do not require intensive care monitoring.
  • (2) Homozygotes have sparse greasy fur and lower viability and fertility than normal littermates.
  • (3) Of the patients 73% demonstrated clinically normal sensibility test results within 23 days after operation.
  • (4) One hour after direct mechanical cardiomassage (DMCM) a moderately pronounced edema of the intercellular spaces in the basal compartment of the seminiferous epithelium, normal content of lactate and succinate dehydrogenases, and a certain decrease in the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenases and NAD- and NADP-diaphorases were noted.
  • (5) Electronmicroscopical investigations have revealed that, under normal conditions, a minor vesicular transfer of intravenously injected peroxidase occurs across the endothelium in segments of arterioles, capillaries and venules, especially in arterioles with a diameter about 15-30 mu.
  • (6) Of 19 patients with coronary artery disease and "normal" omnicardiograms, only 8 (42%) had normal ventricular angiography.
  • (7) Tests showed the cells survive and function normally in animals and reverse movement problems caused by Parkinson's in monkeys.
  • (8) The goals in control patients were to attain normal values for all hemodynamic measurements.
  • (9) The main finding of this study is that diabetic adolescents with a high erythrocyte Na,Li countertransport rate have an arterial pressure significantly higher than patients with normal Na,Li countertransport fluxes.
  • (10) The 14C-aminopyrine breath test was used to measure liver function in 14 normal subjects, 16 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis, 14 alcoholics without cirrhosis, and 29 patients taking a variety of drugs.
  • (11) In the past, the interpretation of the medical findings was hampered by a lack of knowledge of normal anatomy and genital flora in the nonabused prepubertal child.
  • (12) A 66-year-old woman with acute idiopathic polyneuritis (Landry-Guillain-Barré [LGB] syndrome) had normal extraocular movements, but her pupils did not react to light or accommodation.
  • (13) Despite their absence, photoreceptors maintained a normal rate of OS assembly.
  • (14) Early stabilisation may not ensure normal development but even early splinting carries a small risk of avascular necrosis.
  • (15) Other haematological parameters remained normal, with the exception of the absolute number of lymphocytes, which initially fell sharply but soon returned to, and even exceeded, control levels.
  • (16) It was the purpose of the present study to describe the normal pattern of the growth sites of the nasal septum according to age and sex by histological and microradiographical examination of human autopsy material.
  • (17) In addition, KM231 could detect a small amount of the antigen ganglioside in human gastric normal and cancerous mucosa and in gastric cancer cell lines by HPTLC-immunostaining.
  • (18) The results indicate that OA-bearing macrophages primed T cells and generated helper T cells, whereas the culture of normal lymphocytes with soluble OA in the absence of macrophages generated suppressor T cells.
  • (19) In hypophysectomized rats the activity of alanine aminotransferase was increased, but its normal zonation (predominance in the periportal zone) was preserved.
  • (20) Five of the nine normal livers had peribiliary glands that showed HLA-DR.