abnormalities

NOUN

being different from standard or norm

Synonyms

STRONGEST

anomaly deformity flaw irregularity

STRONG

aberrancy aberration bizarreness deviance deviation eccentricity exception extraordinariness oddity peculiarity singularity strangeness uncommonness unnaturalness unusualness weirdness

WEAK

anomalism atypicalness deviancy preternaturalness

Antonyms

STRONGEST

regularity

STRONG

conformity normality sameness standard uniformity usualness

WEAK

normalness

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abnormalities

Then in August, the shares plunged after the agency placed the therapy on clinical hold when spinal scans turned up abnormalities in some trial participants.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

It explains that the father, Gary, donated "part of his liver and bowel" in a transplant for his son Harry who "was born with bowel abnormalities".

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

Experts later determined she suffered from severe anemia; blood clots in both wings and one kidney; liver and lung abnormalities; and inadequate bone marrow response.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

Their remains contained distinctive dental abnormalities and skeletal lesions associated with treponemal infection dating back at least 3,500 years.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026

The first investigators to trace chromosome abnormalities all the way to actual malignancy were Albert Levan and John J. Biesele, working at the Sloan-Kettering Institute in New York.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson