abnormal occlusion

[ ăb-nôr′məl ]

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An alignment of the teeth not considered to be within the normal range of variation.

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The problem, though, is that this advice presumes that death threats are rare and abnormal.
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They combine the fixing with the staining process, and stain differentially every normal and abnormal structure in the blood.
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The abnormal rise in wages had the bad effect of inducing the natives to leave their pastoral pursuits to flock into the towns.
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But conditions now and then appear which are abnormal to man, but which are normal to some of the lower animals.
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