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In a normal manner. Darwin.

In an abnormal manner; irregularly. Darwin.

Union of surface, normally separate, by the formation of new tissue resulting from an inflammatory process.

process of chenge into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation of bone and teeth; abnormally, as in calcareous degeneration of tissue.

Secretion of abnormally colored perspiration.

Act of hearing, or the ability to hear, sounds not normally audible; -- usually claimed as a special faculty of spiritualistic mediums, or the like.

One-sided; having the normally central portion not in the true center. Gray.

he power to live under different conditions; as, a facultative parasite, a plant which is normally saprophytic, but which may exist wholly or in part as a parasite; -- opposed to obligate.

(Mach.) To operate like a freewheel, so that one part moves freely over another which normally moves with it; -- said of a clutch.

An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food.

An abnormally watery state of the blood; anæmia.

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.

Abnormally increased muscular movement; spasm.

A yellowness of the parts of plants which are normally green; yellows.

The condition of having an abnormally large head. -- Meg`a*lo*ce*phal"ic (#), a.

A person whose intellectual development proceeds normally up to about the eighth year of age and is then arrested so that there is little or no further development.

the retina, and hence form an indistinct image; while the rays from very near objects are normally converged so as to produce a distinct image. It is corrected by the use of a concave lens.

The condition of being abnormally small in stature; dwarfishness; -- opposed to gigantism.

are mostly perennial herbs having the stamens and pistils united in a single column, and normally three petals and three sepals, all adherent to the ovary. The flowers are curiously shaped, often resembling insects, the odd or lower petal (called the lip) being unlike the others, and sometimes of a strange and unexpec…