Anaplasia Definition

ănə-plāzhə
noun
Reversion of cells to an immature or a less differentiated form, as occurs in most malignant tumors.
American Heritage Medicine

(biology) A reversion of differentiation in cells that is characteristic of malignancy in tumours.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Anaplasia

Noun

Singular:
anaplasia
Plural:
anaplasias

Origin of Anaplasia

  • ana- +"Ž -plasia

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Anaplasia Sentence Examples

  • Patients with the favorable type of cell have a long-term survival rate of 93 percent, whereas those with anaplasia have a long-term survival rate of 43 percent and those with the sarcoma form have a survival rate of 36 percent.

  • Hansemann's "anaplasia " hypothesis seeks to find an explanation of the formation of new growths in the absence of the histological differentiation of the cell associated with a corresponding increase in its proliferative power and a suspension, or loss, of its functional activity.

  • The greater the degree of anaplasia the more the tumour cells conform in character and appearance to the embryonic type of cell and the more malignant is the new growth.

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Words Starting With

AANANA

Words Ending With

AIASIA

Unscrambles

anaplasia

Words Starting With A and Ending With A

Starts With A & Ends With AStarts With AN & Ends With AStarts With A & Ends With IA

Word Length

9 Letter Words9 Letter Words Starting With A9 Letter Words Ending With A