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  • Atypical

    Different from normal. Irregular; not conformable to the type; in microbiology, applied specifically to strains of unusual type. An adjective used to describe unusual or uncharacteristic variations of a disorder. Atypical Irregular or not of typical character. Deviating from the normal; not conforming to type. Atypical is a term utilized to describe something that deviates…

  • Attenuate

    Gradually narrowing over a long distance. The apex drawn out into a long gradual taper. To render thin or make less virulent. In radiology, to make less intense. To dilute or stretch; to reduce in strength.  

  • Atropous

    Not inverted.  

  • Atomate

    With small resinous dots or glands [unusual term].  

  • Atavism

    (Of a taxon or organ) reversion to ancestral state; reappearance of the presumed ancestral condition. The recurrence in a descendant of genetic characteristics of a remote ancestor reversion. Throwback, development of a characteristic or disease known to have occurred in an earlier ancestor rather than in the parents. The phenomenon in which an individual has…

  • Atactostele

    Stele with many vascular bundles scattered irregularly in the ground tissue.  

  • Astylous

    Without a style.  

  • Astemonous

    Without stamens [obscure term].  

  • Assurgent

    Curving upward; spreading at base and then curving upward to become parallel to the axis from which it springs.  

  • Asperulous

    Slightly rough.  

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