abnormal
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A decade after my transplant, a new drug called imatinib—Gleevec—transformed CML treatment by shutting down the abnormal signaling driving the disease.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026
The cancerous plasma cells produce large amounts of an abnormal antibody called M protein, which builds up in bone marrow and forms tumors in bones, like the one in my hip.
From Slate • Mar. 29, 2026
"This is abnormal, for sure," says Mukesh Sahdev, chief oil analysts at XAnalysts.
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026
A new study published in Volume 14 of the journal Bone Research suggests that a hormone-based treatment could help ease chronic back pain by reducing abnormal nerve growth within damaged spinal tissue.
From Science Daily • Mar. 23, 2026
Only a few years hence, MIT president Karl Compton, himself a physicist with a cyclotron at his command, would issue his lament about the introduction of “an abnormal competitive element” into academic science.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Vocabulary lists containing abnormal
Lesson 1
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