ANOMALY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does anomaly mean? 

• ANOMALY (noun)
  The noun ANOMALY has 3 senses:

1. deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule

2. a person who is unusual

3. (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun)

  Familiarity information: ANOMALY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANOMALY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

anomalousness; anomaly

Hypernyms ("anomaly" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "anomaly"):

birth defect; congenital abnormality; congenital anomaly; congenital defect; congenital disorder (a defect that is present at birth)

Derivation:

anomalist (someone who has a special interest in exceptional cases)

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who is unusual

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

anomaly; unusual person

Hypernyms ("anomaly" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "anomaly"):

aberrant (one whose behavior departs substantially from the norm of a group)

behemoth; colossus; giant; goliath; monster (someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful)

Jekyll and Hyde (someone with two personalities - one good and one evil)

Derivation:

anomalist (someone who has a special interest in exceptional cases)

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

Sense 3

Meaning:

(astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("anomaly" is a kind of...):

place; position (the particular portion of space occupied by something)

Domain category:

astronomy; uranology (the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole)

 Context examples 

Mutation of the gene is associated with primary congenital glaucoma type 3A, primary open angle glaucoma and Peters anomaly.

(CYP1B1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Mutations in this gene are associated with craniofacial and other skeletal anomalies.

(CYP26B1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A congenital anomaly characterized by immunodeficiency, abnormal facies, congenital heart disease, hypocalcemia, and increased susceptibility to infections.

(DiGeorge Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Certain allelic variants of the DNMT3B gene cause immunodeficiency-centromeric instability-facial anomalies syndrome.

(DNMT3B wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A hereditary disease characterized by multiple ectodermal, mesodermal, and endodermal nevoid and neoplastic anomalies.

(Cowden syndrome, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A rare, congenital anomaly in the aorta in which a communication exists between the ascending aorta and the pulmonary artery.

(Congenital Aortic Septal Defect, NCI Thesaurus)

Mutations in the gene are associated with both acromesomelic chondrodysplasia with genital anomalies and brachydactyly types A2 and C.

(BMPR1B wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Congenital vascular anomalies of the brain characterized by tangles of thin walled arteries which communicate directly with veins without intervening capillaries.

(Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformation, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A rare congenital heart anomaly in which there is coexistence of tetralogy of Fallot and complete atrioventricular septal defect.

(Complete Atrioventricular Septal Defect with Tetralogy of Fallot, NCI Thesaurus)

A rare congenital anomaly where the heart is formed outside of the thoracic cavity.

(Ectopia Cordis, NCI Thesaurus)