How to Use abnormality in a Sentence

abnormality

noun
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  • There was some abnormality in his vision.
  • The test results showed several genetic abnormalities.
  • Everyone discussed the abnormalities as a stroke of bad luck.
    — The Cut, The Cut, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Then they can be pushed forward to become healthy heart cells or mutations — or other abnormalities can be corrected.
    — Dr. Marc Siegel Fox News, Fox News, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Emergency room doctors ran a CT scan and found an abnormality.
    — Charles J. Moss, chicagotribune.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • This meant that our baby had a very significant risk of having an abnormality that could be fatal or cause suffering.
    — The Cut, The Cut, 29 Mar. 2018
  • But it can also be caused by underlying abnormalities in motor control, brain injuries, or strokes.
    — Andrea Park, SELF, 4 Apr. 2018
  • According to medical exam, the dog died of a cardiac abnormality due to a congenital heart disease.
    — Matt Rocheleau, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • What’s more, HPV, which is the leading cause of cervical cancer, can lie dormant in the body for decades before causing abnormalities.
    — Sandra Rose Salathe, Flow Space, 9 Dec. 2024
  • The abnormality of the last year and a half could tilt the playing field, as well.
    — oregonlive, 25 Aug. 2021
  • If that was the case, the EKG abnormality seen at Alta should be gone too.
    — New York Times, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Holes in the wall of the septum can cause abnormalities.
    — Alexandria Jones-Patten, Phd, Health, 27 July 2024
  • The organoids showed abnormalities that can cause all of these.
    — Sharon Begley, Scientific American, 10 Dec. 2019
  • The medulla is only about three-quarters of an inch across, and the dot of abnormality on an MRI can be hard to see.
    — Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2021
  • The human eye might miss a tiny abnormality on a CT scan, but AI can be trained to track the smallest details.
    — Sahil Gupta, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
  • There was no clot, no mass, but there was an abnormality.
    — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 1 May 2018
  • If the tests show abnormalities, the next steps likely include an MRI and a prostate biopsy.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2019
  • All three of these abnormalities can be fixed with a minor surgery.
    — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 4 Oct. 2018
  • And this abnormality was the cause of many of his medical problems.
    — New York Times, 30 June 2022
  • At four months old, Ruuxa had surgery to correct a growth abnormality in his leg.
    — Alexis Gravely, WSJ, 28 June 2019
  • On the screen the doctors had seen two abnormalities in the fetus’s brain, problems with his heart, blood filling his kidneys.
    — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 5 Sep. 2024
  • But about 12 weeks into it, her health-care provider noticed an abnormality in the nasal bone, and began to do testing.
    — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 23 May 2022
  • If that assessment confirms the risk, people will be asked to take a PET scan to detect signs of brain abnormalities linked to Alzheimer’s.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2019
  • This method is used when there’s a renal or urinary abnormality in the fetus.
    — Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 7 Sep. 2023
  • But at the time, researchers couldn’t find any abnormalities within that gene.
    — Popular Science, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Some of these abnormalities originate in the egg or sperm.
    — Gina Jiménez, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The window of time would also be extended in the event of fetal abnormalities or if the mother's health is in danger.
    — Allyson Chiu, chicagotribune.com, 21 May 2018
  • Based on the findings, your doctor may order imaging studies to look for abnormalities in the spine.
    — Stuart Hershman, Verywell Health, 26 June 2023
  • And that abnormality has to be approved by two doctors.
    — Caroline Catherman, sun-sentinel.com, 27 Feb. 2022
  • Some people might not like the display abnormality, but there’s nothing wrong with it.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 18 Oct. 2021

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