The phrase "abnormality rather than" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when contrasting two concepts, emphasizing the preference for one over the other.
Example: "The study focused on the effects of abnormality rather than normal behavior in the subjects."
Alternatives: "irregularity instead of" or "deviation rather than".
First of all, it utilizes continuous probabilities of abnormality rather than relying on the highly specific "abnormal" determinations of each device.
The Framingham data suggested otherwise, that atherosclerosis is an arterial abnormality rather than a normal part of aging.
In addition to being crudely schematic rather than drawn from nature, they are portrayals of a particular deity or person who happens by chance to have an abnormality rather than being representative of a disease or deformity so as to provide diagnostic value.
I only noticed this with my eyes and, as Dr. Bazan pointed out, they could point to an optical abnormality rather than a Jerk-like Opti-Grab situation.
Our work indicates that it is actually a complete lack of apoptosis at the crucial stage of development that leads to this abnormality rather than an alteration in the patterning of apoptosis at this crucial time.
It should be emphasized that this method essentially identifies areas of neural abnormality rather than 'lesion' per se.
She never tells us when he suffered his first depression, presumably because that would limit the problem, and she never seriously considers the possibility that his disorder may have been endogenous (caused by biochemical abnormalities) rather than exogenous (a response to events in his life).
This is in agreement with the studies that show evidence of the lower sensitivity of standard motor electrodiagnostic techniques to detect abnormalities, rather than sparing of motor axons (Chang et al. 2002, 2006, 2009; Ginanneschi et al. 2006).
However, normal motor conduction studies in CTS may be attributed to a lower sensitivity of the conventional wrist to abductor pollicis brevis (APB) motor study method to detect abnormalities, rather than sparing of the motor fibers, especially in mild CTS patients (Chang et al. 2002, 2006, 2009; Ginanneschi et al. 2006).
Some of the previously observed effects on neurogenesis may have been caused by cell cycle abnormalities rather than a specific effect of Geminin on neural differentiation.
In the trial by Berhanu 2006, insulin only patients had a higher incidence of cardiac events (10.7% versus 5.5%) but the majority were ECG abnormalities rather than patient oriented outcomes; there was one patient each with myocardial infarction and cardiac hypertrophy in the insulin only group, and one patient with coronary artery disease in the pioglitazone group; no deaths were observed.
