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Abnormality

The state or quality of being abnormal; variation; irregularity.

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Narrower term 28

Aberrance 76% connected

Alt. of Aberrancy

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Aberrancy 76% connected

State of being aberrant; a wandering from the right way; deviation from truth, rectitude, etc.

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Aberration 76% connected

The act of wandering; deviation, especially from truth or moral rectitude, from the natural state, or from a type.

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Anomalousness 76% connected

Quality of being anomalous.

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Anomaly 76% connected

Deviation from the common rule; an irregularity; anything anomalous.

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Atresia 76% connected

Absence or closure of a natural passage or channel of the body; imperforation.

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Deviation 76% connected

The act of deviating; a wandering from the way; variation from the common way, from an established rule, etc.; departure, as from the right course or…

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Erethism 76% connected

A morbid degree of excitement or irritation in an organ.

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Fixation 76% connected

The act of fixing, or the state of being fixed.

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Heterotaxy 76% connected

Variation in arrangement from that existing in a normal form; heterogenous arrangement or structure, as, in botany, the deviation in position of the…

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Hydrocephalus 76% connected

An accumulation of liquid within the cavity of the cranium, especially within the ventricles of the brain; dropsy of the brain. It is due usually to…

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Hypospadias 76% connected

A deformity of the penis, in which the urethra opens upon its under surface.

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Inversion 76% connected

The act of inverting, or turning over or backward, or the state of being inverted.

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Irritation 76% connected

The act of irritating, or exciting, or the state of being irritated; excitement; stimulation, usually of an undue and uncomfortable kind; especially,…

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Lagophthalmos 76% connected

A morbid condition in which the eye stands wide open, giving a peculiar staring appearance.

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Obliquity 76% connected

The condition of being oblique; deviation from a right line; deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity; the amount of such deviation; divergence…

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Phimosis 76% connected

A condition of the penis in which the prepuce can not be drawn back so as to uncover the glans penis.

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Pneumothorax 76% connected

A condition in which air or other gas is present in the cavity of the chest; -- called also pneumatothorax.

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Regression 76% connected

The act of passing back or returning; retrogression; retrogradation.

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Retroflexion 76% connected

The act of reflexing; the state of being retroflexed. Cf. Retroversion.

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Retroversion 76% connected

A turning or bending backward; also, the state of being turned or bent backward; displacement backwards; as, retroversion of the uterus.

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Sequela 76% connected

One who, or that which, follows.

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Squint 76% connected

Looking obliquely. Specifically (Med.), not having the optic axes coincident; -- said of the eyes. See Squint, n., 2.

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Strabismus 76% connected

An affection of one or both eyes, in which the optic axes can not be directed to the same object, -- a defect due either to undue contraction or to u…

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Torticollis 76% connected

See Wryneck.

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Transposition 76% connected

The act of transposing, or the state of being transposed.

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Varix 76% connected

A uneven, permanent dilatation of a vein.

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Wryneck 76% connected

A twisted or distorted neck; a deformity in which the neck is drawn to one side by a rigid contraction of one of the muscles of the neck; torticollis.

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Backwardness 76% connected

The state of being backward.

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Misbehavior 76% connected

Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct.

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Misdeed 76% connected

An evil deed; a wicked action.

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Retardation 76% connected

The act of retarding; hindrance; the act of delaying; as, the retardation of the motion of a ship; -- opposed to acceleration.

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Slowness 76% connected

The quality or state of being slow.

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Strangeness 76% connected

The state or quality of being strange (in any sense of the adjective).

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Abnormal 74% connected

Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular.

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Abnormal 74% connected

Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular.

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Irregularity 92% connected

The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.

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