METAPLASIA
\mˌɛtəplˈe͡ɪzi͡ə], \mˌɛtəplˈeɪziə], \m_ˌɛ_t_ə_p_l_ˈeɪ_z_iə]\
Definitions of METAPLASIA
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms (6th edition)
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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By William R. Warner
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By J.H. Kenneth
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met-a-pl[=a]'si-a, n. the direct conversion of one form of an adult tissue into another--also METAP'LASIS.--n. MET'APLASM, a grammatical change in a word by adding or dropping a letter. [Gr. meta, over, plasis--plassein, to form.]
By Thomas Davidson
By Alexander Duane
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Of Virchow, the replacement of one tissue by another, or the transformation of one tissue into another, such as the replacement of the cartilaginous by the osseous skeleton, the transformation of red into yellow marrow or the reverse. The process may be pathological also, as in osteomalacia. It only occurs in tissues from the same germ layer, and is mostly seen in those derived from the mesoblast. [Gr.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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