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Meaning of anaplasia in English:

anaplasia

Pronunciation /anəˈpleɪzɪə/

noun

mass nounMedicine

  • The loss of the mature or specialized features of a cell or tissue, as in malignant tumours.

    • ‘transitional cell carcinomas are graded 1 to 3 or 4 according to the degree of anaplasia’

Origin

Early 20th century from ana- + Greek plasis ‘formation’.