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abnormality vs inversion

inversion vs abnormality

abnormality and inversion both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
abnormality Yes No No No
inversion Yes No No No
As nouns, inversion is a hyponym of abnormality; that is, inversion is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than abnormality:
  • abnormality: an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies
  • inversion: abnormal condition in which an organ is turned inward or inside out (as when the upper part of the uterus is pulled into the cervical canal after childbirth)
Other hyponyms of abnormality include acardia, acephalia, acephalism, acephaly, acorea, acromicria, acromikria, acromphalus, amastia, aneuploidy, anorchia, anorchidism, anorchism, asynclitism, obliquity, atresia, brachydactylia, brachydactyly, cryptorchidism, cryptorchidy, cryptorchism, deviated septum, dextrocardia, ectrodactyly, erethism, fetal distress, foetal distress, hepatomegaly, megalohepatia, heterotaxy, transposition, pneumothorax, macrencephaly, hydatid mole, hydatidiform mole, molar pregnancy, hydramnios, hypervitaminosis, hypospadias, lagophthalmos, mental abnormality, nanophthalmos, palmature, dysplasia, hydrocephalus, hydrocephaly, abrachia, progeria, atypicality, untypicality, arrested development, fixation, infantile fixation, regression, aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, deviance, cyclopia, spinal curvature, subnormality, anomalousness, anomaly, gynecomastia, infantilism, macrocephaly, megacephaly, megalocephaly, microbrachia, microcephalus, microcephaly, nanocephaly, pachycheilia, phimosis, irritation, retroflection, retroflexion, retroversion, sequela, squint, strabismus, torticollis, wryneck, varix.
abnormality (noun) inversion (noun)
behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality turning upside down; setting on end
marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal the act of turning inside out
retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence a term formerly used to mean taking on the gender role of the opposite sex
an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies the reversal of the normal order of words
(counterpoint) a variation of a melody or part in which ascending intervals are replaced by descending intervals and vice versa
(genetics) a kind of mutation in which the order of the genes in a section of a chromosome is reversed
the layer of air near the earth is cooler than an overlying layer
a chemical process in which the direction of optical rotation of a substance is reversed from dextrorotatory to levorotary or vice versa
abnormal condition in which an organ is turned inward or inside out (as when the upper part of the uterus is pulled into the cervical canal after childbirth)
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