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Aberrant

aberrans aberrant (Latin, aberrantis - deviating) – deviating from a normal arrangement, a state or a structure. This term is used, as a rule, in relation to the nerves or blood vessels located not in that place where they have to be, for example, the aberrant site of a chromosome, an aberrant blood vessel etc.

 
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