Members of the group believe hearing voices is a normal variation of human existence, and, notably, one that needn't always be diagnosed as an illness unless that is how the voice hearer chooses to see it.
The variable capacity to expand adipose tissue need not be associated with pathology, rather it is a normal variation in adipose tissue plasticity, occurring during both malnutrition and normal post-natal conditions that enables the animal to manage its nutritional environment (Fig. 7).
It remains difficult to determine whether a period of slow progress in labour is pathological and therefore justifies treatment, or is a normal variation in the physiological process leading to delivery, especially when the fetal head is above the inter-spinal diameter and the fetal head-to-cervix contact is poor.
This is a normal variation in leg appearance that usually corrects itself as the child continues to grow.
In tigers, medial meniscal ossification appears to be a normal anatomical variation that progressively develops following birth, and may serve as a model for the phylogenetic (developmental) theory of etiology [ 6].
In both hemispheres, lingual gyri are located caudal to the parahippocampal gyri, and are bordered laterally by collateral sulci that are bifurcated caudally, which is also a normal variation (Ono et al., 1990, p. 101).
Even with a degree in psychology from UCLA, where I learned that it's just a normal variation in human sexuality, I still discarded all of the medical conclusions and I still felt I could change".
They want it to be seen as a normal variation in human nature.
Small areas of slightly higher radiodensity on both the tibia and the femur could also be results of a normal variation (Figure 4). Figure 4 CT-Scans of skeleton 130 from Refshale, Lolland-Falster.
Some of the attendees opposed the idea that dyslexia is a diagnosis at all, arguing that to label it as such is to pathologize a normal variation of human intellect.
