How does "absence of abnormality" affect our perception of health?
Another type of congenital abnormality affects the heart valves, causing valvular insufficiency or obstruction.
[New York Post ] Ahomeless teenager with a birth abnormality affecting his arms inspires Union Square commuters with his drums.
We have shown in a previous study that the splice abnormality affects skeletal muscle more than other tissues, leading to the purely muscular phenotype.
Down syndrome (trisomy 21) is the most common autosomal chromosomal abnormality, affecting 13 22 of every 10,000 live births [5 7].
Illness is not the only mental "abnormality" affecting us; about one in ten American children (and presumably adults?) have a learning disability.
In this disease there is an abnormality affecting different elements of oxygen-dependent killing.
Even if they have a syndrome, even if their veins are going to the wrong place, even if their "abnormality" affects their appearance, they are still a baby, which is still a human, and their life has as much value as your's.
Recently, a genetic abnormality affecting the function of LAP was described as the underlying cause of a naturally occurring human disease called Camurati-Engelmann's disease (CED).
It is possible that the observed enhancement of growth in Factor VIII KO NOD- SCID mice is due to a potential genetic abnormality affecting some other aspect of their metabolism.
