Definition of Aplasia

1. Noun. Failure of some tissue or organ to develop.

Generic synonyms: Dysplasia

Definition of Aplasia

1. n. Incomplete or faulty development.

Definition of Aplasia

1. Noun. (pathology) A condition marked by the incomplete development, or absence, of an organ or tissue. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Aplasia

1. defective development of an organ or part [n -S]

Medical Definition of Aplasia

1. A lack of development of an organ or tissue or of the cellular products from an organ or tissue. Compare: hypoplasia. Origin: Gr. Plassein = to form (18 Nov 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aplasia

apivore
apivores
apivorous
apixaban
apjohnite
aplacental
aplacentata
aplacophora
aplacophoran
aplanat
aplanatic
aplanatic lens
aplanatic points
aplanatism
aplanats
aplasia (current term)
aplasias
aplastic
aplastic anaemia
aplastic anemia
aplastic lymph
aplenty
aplite
aplites
aplitic
aplomb
aplombs
aplotomy

Literary usage of Aplasia

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

1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1916)
"Unusual Type of Hereditary Disease, aplasia axialis, Extra-Corticalis Con- genita. FE BATTEN and D. WILKINSON. 3. Study of the Posterior Longitudinal Bundle ..."

2. A Text-book of Medicine for Students and Practitioners by Adolf von Strümpell, Herman Frank Vickery, Philip Coombs Knapp, Frederick C. Shattuck (1886)
"This is called " aplasia of the lungs," a condition which may give rise to severe results (vide infra). Symptoms.—In the majority of cases the appearances ..."

3. Endocrine Glands and the Sympathetic System by Pierre Lereboullet (1922)
"B. SYMPTOMS OF aplasia OR HYPOPLASIA OF THE THY.MU8. CONGENITAL THYMIC IDIOCY. On post mortem examination of many deficient children, no cerebral lesions ..."

4. Diseases of the nervous system: A Text-book of Neurology and Psychiatry by Smith Ely Jelliffe, William Alanson White (1917)
"aplasia* of Cerebellum.—These are congenital, and represent a vast array of different conditions; total lack of cerebellum, absence of the lateral (in old ..."

5. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1899)
"UNILATERAL RENAL aplasia ; " UNSYMMETRICAL KIDNEY." By FREDERICK CRAVEN MOORE, MD, M.Sc. (Viet.), Demonstrator and Assistant Lecturer on ..."

6. Thyroid and Thymus by André Crotti (1922)
"Thymic aplasia and Hypoplasia. —The thymus may be found totally absent or markedly hypoplastic. Several authors seem to think that there is a causal ..."

7. The Ductless Glandular Diseases by Wilhelm Falta (1916)
"I shall only choose those types that seem to me important for the discussion of the problems stated above. i. aplasia of the Sexual Glands ..."

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