irregular

adj. in linguistics, denoting a word or a form of a word that does not follow the usual patterns of inflection in a language. For example, go has the irregular past tense went (not go-ed) and sheep has the irregular plural sheep (not sheeps). Compare regular.

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secondary amenorrhea

see amenorrhea.