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hyperplasias

hyperplasias is the plural of hyperplasia.

Meaning of hyperplasia

Noun

hyperplasia (countable and uncountable, plural hyperplasias)

  1. An increase in the size of a tissue or organ due to increased number of cells.
    • But we can no longer regard the mere fact of these diffuse condensations of the lung becoming yellow and caseous as an evidence of their tuberculous nature, especially since the pathological anatomists, and among them Virchow, have shown that formations of the most different kind, having not the...1868, Felix von Niemeyer, J. L Parke, Clinical Lectures on Pulmonary Phthisis, Moorhead, Simpson & Bond, page 3
    Synonyms:
    hypergenesis

Phrases with hyperplasias

Questions about hyperplasias

What is hyperplasias the plural of?
Hyperplasias is the plural of hyperplasia.

Words near hyperplasias in the dictionary

  1. hyperpituitarism
  2. hyperplanar
  3. hyperplane
  4. hyperplanes
  5. hyperplasia
  6. hyperplasias
  7. hyperplasic
  8. hyperplasiogenic
  9. hyperplasma
  10. hyperplasmas
  11. hyperplasmic

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