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Definition of Metaplastic
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Metaplastic
1. Pertaining to metaplasia or metaplasis. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metaplastic
Literary usage of Metaplastic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Biology of the Blood-cells with a Glossary of Hæmatological Terms: For by Oskar Cameron Gruner (1914)
"SURVEY OF THE HYPERPLASTIC, metaplastic, META- HYPERPLASTIC, AND ALLIED PROCESSES
IN THE PULPAR AND FOLLICULAR TISSUES.—The play between parenchyma and ..."
2. A Text-book of Mycology and Plant Pathology by John William Harshberger (1917)
"Changes of a metaplastic kind are produced in the cells of plants, especially in
the production of new cell contents, or of the cell wall by increase in ..."
3. A Grammar of the Greek Language: Principally from the German of Kühner, with by Charles Anthon, Raphael Kühner (1849)
"metaplastic nouns have, like the Hétéroclites, a double formation, ... The metaplastic
nouns of the same declension have already been considered, ..."
4. A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story by Andrei Maylunas (2005)
"After injury, however, cell proliferation and differentiation sometimes establish,
as an end point, regions of metaplastic cells. In this brief review, ..."
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