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• n  an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies
• n  retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence
• n  marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal
• n  behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality

• He had a genetic abnormality, and that abnormality could have resulted in mental retardation and it also the chances were more likely that you wouldn't have necessarily known .
• Between her physical exam, scans and X-rays, I was unable to find any abnormality other than nonreproduceable joint stiffness (they moved well except while I examined them) and .
• In 2006 and 2007, her daughter, now 5, had two additional CT scans, 6 months apart, for what doctors initially thought was a growth abnormality.

• abnormalcy
• mental defectiveness
• freakishness
• irregularity

• normality

News & Articles

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• Mom: Happy noises get New Bedford girl tossed
  NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — A New Bedford mom says she and her 5-year-old developmentally disabled daughter were thrown out of a Providence, R.I., theater during a performance of "Beauty and the Beast" because the little girl was making giggling and humming noises she makes when she's happy. Samantha Torres says her daughter, Nadia, suffers from a chromosome abnormality and can't speak.
  June 18, 2013 - Boston Herald

Quotes

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• Ben Howland in SportingNews.com
  Howland said the junior forward would play Thursday "barring any unforeseen abnormality on the MRI."
• Tony Blair in BBC News
  But that is normal politics in a normal society: it is what Tony Blair called "a small ambition to anyone who has not lived through the abnormality of a society living on the edge".
• Jiri Fischer in ESPN
  I wasn't scared about the abnormality,Fischer said at the time. "But I was scared about not playing hockey again. That was a shock for me."