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f the lungs in which the air cells are distended and their partition walls ruptured by an abnormal pressure of the air contained in them.

Exceeding the usual rule, norm, or measure; out of due proportion; inordinate; abnormal. "Enormous bliss." Milton. "This enormous state." Shak. "The hoop's enormous size." Jenyns. Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait. Milton.

The abnormal change of an irregular flower to a regular form; - - considered by evolutionists to be a reversion to an ancestral condition.

Growing out in an abnormal or morbid manner or as a superfluity. Expunge the whole, or lip the excrescent parts. Pope. Excrescent letter (Philol.), a letter which has been added to a root; as, the d in alder (AS. alr) is an excrescent letter.

. -- False cadence, an imperfect or interrupted cadence. -- False conception (Med.), an abnormal conception in which a mole, or misshapen fleshy mass, is produced instead of a properly organized fetus. -- False croup (Med.), a spasmodic affection of the larynx attended with the symptoms of membranous croup, but unas…

A permanent abnormal opening into the soft parts with a constant discharge; a deep, narrow, chronic abscess; an abnormal opening between an internal cavity and another cavity or the surface; as, a salivary fistula; an anal fistula; a recto-vaginal fistula. Incomplete fistula (Med.), a fistula open at one end only.…

An abnormal or excessive discharge of blood from the uterus. Dunglison.

An oyster which has the gills tinged with a green pigment, said to be due to an abnormal condition of the blood.

An abnormal condition of certain animals, in which one side has the external characters of the male, and the other those of the female.

Pertaining to an abnormal condition of the flower, in which the stamens are converted into pistils. A. Brown.

Deviating from ordinary forms or rules; irregular; anomalous; abnormal.

Deviating from ordinary forms or rules; irregular; anomalous; abnormal.

An abnormal state of the voice. Mayne.

An abnormal formation foreign to the economy, and composed of elements different from those are found in it in its normal condition. Dunglison.

n from the natural position; -- a term applied in the case of organs or growths which are abnormal in situation.

(Med.) Excessive perspiration; also, any skin disease characterized by abnormal perspiration.

An abnormally watery state of the blood; anæmia.

An abnormal dread of water, said to be a symptom of canine madness; hence:

A prefix signifying over, above; as, hyperphysical, hyperthyrion; also, above measure, abnormally great, excessive; as, hyperæmia, hyperbola, hypercritical, hypersecretion.

A condition of the blood, characterized by an abnormally large amount of fibrin, as in many inflammatory diseases.