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Anaplasia vs Anaplastic - What's the difference?

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Anaplasia is a related term of anaplastic.


As a noun anaplasia

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

As a adjective anaplastic is

(oncology) of, or relating to, a tumor that shows little histogenetic differentiation it implies that a tumor is high grade and likely to behave in an aggressive fashion.

anaplasia

English

Noun

(wikipedia anaplasia)
  • (biology) A reversion of differentiation in cells that is characteristic of malignancy in tumours

    • Derived terms

    * anaplasic

    See also

    * dysplasia * hyperplasia * metaplasia * neoplasia ----

    anaplastic

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (oncology) Of, or relating to, a tumor that shows little histogenetic differentiation. It implies that a tumor is high grade and likely to behave in an aggressive fashion.
  • (surgery) Of or relating to plastic surgery.

    • Related terms

    * anaplasia * anaplasma * anaplasmataceae * anaplastology

    Derived terms

    * anaplastic astrocytoma * anaplastic carcinoma