Definition of Neoplasia

1. Noun. The pathological process that results in the formation and growth of a tumor.


Definition of Neoplasia

1. n. Growth or development of new material; neoplasty.

Definition of Neoplasia

1. Noun. (biology) The formation of new tissue ¹

2. Noun. (medicine) The formation of a neoplasm ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Neoplasia

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Medical Definition of Neoplasia

1. Literally new growth, usually refers to abnormal new growth and thus means the same as tumour, which may be benign or malignant. Unlike hyperplasia, neoplastic proliferation persists even in the absence of the original stimulus. Origin: Gr. Plassein = to form This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Neoplasia

neophile
neophiles
neophilia
neophiliac
neophiliacs
neophilias
neophobe
neophobes
neophobia
neophobic
neophrenia
neophyte
neophytes
neophytic
neopinone
neoplasia (current term)
neoplasias
neoplasm
neoplasm: gallium imaging
neoplasm circulating cells
neoplasm invasiveness
neoplasm metastasis
neoplasm seeding
neoplasm staging
neoplasm transplantation
neoplasms
neoplasms by histologic type
neoplasms by site
neoplastic
neoplastic arachnoiditis

Literary usage of Neoplasia

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

1. General Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics: In Fifty-one Lectures by Theodor Billroth, Charles Elihu Hackley, Alexander von Winiwarter (1883)
"This ossification may either occur directly or after the inflammatory neoplasia has been transformed to cartilage. You know that both of these modes are ..."

2. Collected Papers by the Staff of Saint Mary's Hospital, Mayo Clinic by Saint Marys Hospital (Rochester, Minn.) (1920)
"A MATHEMATICAL TERMINOLOGY FOR neoplasia AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE* WC MACCARTY In 1918 I presented a biologic conception of neoplasia and indicated its relation ..."

3. A Text-book of Practical Medicine: With Particular Reference to Physiology by Felix von Niemeyer (1869)
"... injection, and extirpation are treated of in text-books of surgery. CHAPTER III. COMPLICATED neoplasia AND SOLID ..."

4. A Text-book of practical medicine, with particular reference to physiology by Felix von Niemeyer (1883)
"... has saved three hundred and seventy-two patients, and lost one hundred and twenty-eight.] CHAPTER III. COMPLICATED neoplasia AND SOLID TUMORS IN THE ..."

5. Pathology and treatment of diseases of the skin: For Practitioners and Students by Moriz Kaposi (1895)
"... AND CONTAGIOUS ULCERS — ULCER OF THE LEG—CHANCRE—SECONDARY INFLAMMATORY ULCERS AND THOSE DDE TO neoplasia. A CUTANEOUS ulcer is a loss of substance in ..."

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