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Definition of Anaplasia

1. Noun. Loss of structural differentiation within a cell or group of cells often with increased capacity for multiplication, as in a malignant tumor.

Definition of Anaplasia

1. Noun. (biology) A reversion of differentiation in cells that is characteristic of malignancy in tumours ¹

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Definition of Anaplasia

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Anaplasia

1. Characteristics of a cell (structure and orientation) that make it identifiable as a cancer cell and malignant. There is lack of differentiation, which is characteristic of some tumour cells. Origin: Gr. Plassein = to form (16 Dec 1997)

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Literary usage of Anaplasia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1901)
"To this transformation or development in the character of the growth he applies the term " anaplasia," and he says that the possibility that the anaplasia ..."

2. Neoplastic Diseases: A Treatise on Tumors by James Ewing (1922)
"Complete loss of these relations is observed in diffusely growing carcinomas arising from such glands and signifies advanced anaplasia. ..."

3. A Text-book of general pathology for the use of students and practitioners by James Martin Beattie (1908)
"The greater the degree of anaplasia and the more primitive and ... The less marked the anaplasia of the cells, the more " benign " or " simple " is the ..."

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