Not only was an abnormally engorged clitoris thought to create lusts in some women that led them to masturbate, but pamphlets warning women about masturbation leading to such oversized organs were written as cautionary tales.

She was on medication for epilepsy and had an abnormally large heart.

Despite the fact that Mary was tall for her age ( eventually reaching, making her almost a giant in the sixteenth century ) and fluent in speech, while Francis was abnormally short and stuttered, Henry II commented that " from the very first day they met, my son and she got on as well together as if they had known each other for a long time ".

Founded as the town at the end of the railroad, Faith was originally the hub of a homestead boom in the period 1910-1920 ; but the drought conditions of the 1920s that led to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s quickly replaced abnormally wet conditions of the early 20th Century, and the harsh winters of the Northern Plains quickly drove many sodbusters to more hospitable regions.

Indeed, until an abnormally wet year in 1963 it was not realised that the northeastern part of the basin beyond Wongan Hills ever drained water into the river.

Merrick was born in Leicester and began to develop abnormally during the first few years of his life.

Dalton complained that Albert Victor's mind was " abnormally dormant ".

TAR was first identified in 1956, and was named almost thirteen years later when severe bruising ( along with abnormally short forearms ) was present in three families with nine newborns.

Soon after, the Mayor rescues Fauchelevent, who is pinned by a runaway cart (" The Runaway Cart "), reminding Javert of Jean Valjean ( who was abnormally strong ), whom he has sought for years for breaking parole.

Opal was the ninth hurricane and the strongest of the abnormally active 1995 Atlantic hurricane season.

His great size and his continued growth in adulthood was due to hypertrophy of his pituitary gland, which results in an abnormally high level of human growth hormone.

Eyewitness testimony indicates that Camp 3 had not been sited in an unusual or abnormally dangerous spot, and that the serac fall was of such magnitude as to render the specific placing of the tents at Camp 3 irrelevant.

On the interstage, during retrorocket firing, a maximum temperature of was seen, indicating something unknown may have caused an abnormally high reading.

Hence, unless there was an abnormally low number of scarabs produced under Thutmose II, this would indicate that the king's reign was rather short-lived.

In contrast, the Moche were a lowland culture that died out after a strong El Niño, which caused abnormally high rainfall and floods, which was followed by a long drought.

Featuring a disproportionate, bulky torso with abnormally long arms, enormous hands and tiny legs, Scorpion's appearance and stiff, rigid movements was more akin to a linebacker rather than a lithe ninja and sometimes compared to " super-deformed " characters popular in many Japanese games.

Amongst other plotlines, a young medical student becomes attracted to the nurse in charge of the sleep research laboratory, a ghostly ambulance appears and disappears every night, a junior doctor runs a black market in medical supplies, and a neurosurgeon discovers that she was impregnated by a ghost and that her baby is developing abnormally rapidly.

Foster and Field took between then 238 wickets, but in Wisden nobody doubted that Warwickshire's win was largely caused by an abnormally dry summer, and the following three years saw them return to mid-table although Foster in 1914 displayed all-round form equal to that of 1911.

" Upon admission to the hospital, she was noted as suffering from hypokalemia: her serum potassium level was an abnormally low 2. 0 mEq / L ( the normal range for adults is 3. 5 – 5. 0 mEq / L ).

It did not become Tropical Storm Alex until July 29, which was an abnormally late first named storm for an Atlantic hurricane season.

A distal hypospadias may be suspected even in an uncircumcised boy from an abnormally formed foreskin and downward tilt of the glans.

The season had an abnormally late start ; the first system formed on September 11, nearly two months after the official beginning date.

The importance of knowing in what chemical forms the hormone may exist is accentuated by the recent observation that there exists an abnormally long-acting TSH in blood drawn from many thyrotoxic patients ( Adams, 1958 ).

Bipolar disorder is defined by the presence of one or more episodes of abnormally elevated energy levels, cognition, and mood with or without one or more depressive episodes.

It is believed to be a potential cause of an abnormally high number of brain tumors ( 70 since 1996 ) around the town of Cameron, Missouri, which is currently being investigated by the EPA.

When Phe cannot be metabolized by the body, abnormally high levels accumulate in the blood and are toxic to the brain.

In contemporary times, some traditional-style soul foods have been implicated in the abnormally high rates of high blood pressure ( hypertension ), diabetes, clogged arteries ( atherosclerosis ), stroke, and heart attack suffered by African-Americans – especially those living in the Southern and Central United States.

Sleep apnoea ( or sleep apnea in American English ; ) is a sleep disorder characterized by abnormal pauses in breathing or instances of abnormally low breathing, during sleep.

Considered by some economists to be a rare and extreme form of recession, a depression is characterized by its length ; by abnormally large increases in unemployment ; falls in the availability of credit, often due to some kind of banking or financial crisis ; shrinking output as buyers dry up and suppliers cut back on production and investment ; large number of bankruptcies including sovereign debt defaults ; significantly reduced amounts of trade and commerce, especially international ; as well as highly volatile relative currency value fluctuations, most often due to devaluations.

The Ponzi scheme usually entices new investors by offering higher returns than other investments, in the form of short-term returns that are either abnormally high or unusually consistent.

Azotemia is a medical condition characterized by abnormally high levels of nitrogen-containing compounds, such as urea, creatinine, various body waste compounds, and other nitrogen-rich compounds in the blood.

* cluttering-a syndrome characterized by a speech delivery rate which is either abnormally fast, irregular, or both.

* Night eating syndrome, characterized by morning anorexia, evening polyphagia ( abnormally increased appetite for consumption of food ( frequently associated with insomnia, and injury to the hypothalamus ).

Researchers at University College London have questioned the wisdom of suppressing the immune system in Crohn's, as the problem may be an underactive rather than an overactive immune system: Their study found that Crohn's patients showed an abnormally low response to an introduced infection, marked by a poor flow of blood to the wound, and the response improved when the patients were given sildenafil citrate.

Occasionally its color is due to lack of pigmentation, as in the pinkish-white of oculo-cutaneous albinism, or to obscuration of its pigment by blood vessels, as in the red of an abnormally vascularised iris.

Cardioversion is a medical procedure by which an abnormally fast heart rate or cardiac arrhythmia is converted to a normal rhythm, using electricity or drugs.

At abnormally high concentrations brought about by human activities ( largely incomplete combustion of fossil fuels, such as gasoline, diesel, etc.

Neutropenia, from Latin prefix neutro-( neither, for neutral staining ) and Greek suffix-πενία ( deficiency ), is a granulocyte disorder characterized by an abnormally low number of neutrophils.

The main type of prolapse of heart valves in humans is mitral valve prolapse ( MVP ), which is a valvular heart disease characterized by the displacement of an abnormally thickened mitral valve leaflet into the left atrium during systole.

Tree ring analysis by dendrochronologist Mike Baillie, of the Queen's University of Belfast, shows abnormally little growth in Irish oak in 536 and another sharp drop in 542, after a partial recovery.

* 2008 Central Asia energy crisis, caused by abnormally cold temperatures and low water levels in an area dependent on hydroelectric power.

Most importantly, absent the abnormally elevated levels of growth hormone that were released by the tumor, the features of acromegaly quickly regress.

His analysis suggests that the number of rejections of the null hypothesis reported by Bem ( eight out of nine experiments ) is abnormally high given the properties of the experiments and reported effect sizes, with the probability of Bem obtaining such results ( 0. 058 ) significantly less than the standard criterion used in tests of publication bias ( 0. 1 ).

Sometimes the body may compensate by making abnormally large platelets.