ABNORMAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does abnormal mean? 

• ABNORMAL (adjective)
  The adjective ABNORMAL has 3 senses:

1. not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm

2. departing from the normal in e.g. intelligence and development

3. much greater than the normal

  Familiarity information: ABNORMAL used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABNORMAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm

Synonyms:

abnormal; unnatural

Context example:

an abnormal interest in food

Similar:

aberrant; deviant; deviate (markedly different from an accepted norm)

anomalous (deviating from the general or common order or type)

antidromic (conducting nerve impulses in a direction opposite to normal)

atypical; irregular (deviating from normal expectations; somewhat odd, strange, or abnormal)

brachydactylic; brachydactylous (having abnormally short finger or toes)

defective (markedly subnormal in structure or function or intelligence or behavior)

freakish (characteristic of a freak)

kinky; perverted ((used of sexual behavior) showing or appealing to bizarre or deviant tastes)

subnormal (below normal or average)

supernormal (exceeding the normal or average)

vicarious (occurring in an abnormal part of the body instead of the usual site involved in that function)

Also:

insane (afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement)

Attribute:

normalcy; normality (being within certain limits that define the range of normal functioning)

Antonym:

normal (conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal)

Derivation:

abnormality (behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality)

abnormality (an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Departing from the normal in e.g. intelligence and development

Context example:

an abnormal personality

Similar:

exceptional (deviating widely from a norm of physical or mental ability; used especially of children below normal in intelligence)

Domain category:

psychological science; psychology (the science of mental life)

Antonym:

normal (being approximately average or within certain limits in e.g. intelligence and development)

Derivation:

abnormality (retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Much greater than the normal

Context example:

abnormal ambition

Similar:

immoderate (beyond reasonable limits)

 Context examples 

A poorly defined concept which at best is described as an extremely rare entity, possibly related to various subtypes of acute myeloid leukemia with abnormal eosinophils.

(Acute Eosinophilic Leukemia, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

A finding based on pulmonary function test results that indicate an abnormal vital capacity (amount of exhaled after a maximum inhalation) when compared to the predicted value.

(Abnormal Vital Capacity, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

A pulmonary function test result indicating an abnormal vital capacity as compared to the predicted value.

(Abnormal Vital Capacity, NCI Thesaurus)

A pregnancy that is complicated and affected by an abnormal finding or disease condition in either the fetus and/or the mother.

(Abnormal Pregnancy, NCI Thesaurus)

In leukemia, however, the bone marrow produces abnormal white blood cells.

(Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

An acute myeloid leukemia with monocytic and granulocytic differentiation and the presence of a characteristically abnormal eosinophil component in the bone marrow.

(Acute Myeloid Leukemia with inv(16)(p13.1q22) or t(16;16)(p13.1;q22); CBFB-MYH11, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

An acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in which abnormal promyelocytes predominate.

(Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia with t(15;17)(q22;q12); PML-RARA, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

Acute myeloid leukemia characterized by the presence of abnormal bone marrow eosinophils and the characteristic cytogenetic abnormality t(16;16)(p13.1;q22) which results in the expression of the fusion protein CBFB-MYH11.

(Acute Myeloid Leukemia with t(16;16)(p13.1;q22); CBFB-MYH11, NCI Thesaurus)

Acute myeloid leukemia characterized by the presence of abnormal bone marrow eosinophils and the characteristic cytogenetic abnormality inv(16)(p13.1q22) which results in the expression of the fusion protein CBFB-MYH11.

(Acute Myeloid Leukemia with inv(16)(p13.1q22); CBFB-MYH11, NCI Thesaurus)

Specifies whether an interpreted event or entity is abnormal.

(Abnormal Indicator, NCI Thesaurus)