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- Anaplasia (structural differentiation loss within a cell or group of cells).
- Aplasia (organ or part of organ missing)
- Desmoplasia (connective tissue growth)
- Dysplasia (change in cell or tissue phenotype)
- Hyperplasia (proliferation of cells)
- Hypoplasia (congenital below-average number of cells, especially when inadequate)
- Metaplasia (conversion in cell type)
- Neoplasia (abnormal proliferation)
- Prosoplasia (development of new cell function)
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- Abiotrophy (loss in vitality of organ or tissue)
- Atrophy (reduced functionality of an organ, with decrease in the number or volume of cells)
- Hypertrophy (increase in the volume of cells or tissues)
- Hypotrophy (decrease in the volume of cells or tissues)
- Dystrophy (any degenerative disorder resulting from improper or faulty nutrition)
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Prosoplasia (from Ancient Greek: προσωπον prósopon , "face" + πλάσις plasis, "formation") is the differentiation of cells either to a higher function or to a higher level of organization.[1]
Assuming an increasing cellular peculiarity from a presupposed stem-cell fate, prosoplasia is therefore a forward differentiation, unlike anaplasia (a backward differentiation). Examples of prosoplasia include the forward differentiation of cells in the mucosa in Warthin's tumor.[2]
References
- ^ Bignold, Leon P., Brian LD Coghlan, and Hubertus PA Jersmann. David Paul von Hansemann: contributions to oncology. Springer, 2007.
- ^ Rajendran, R. Shafer's textbook of oral pathology. Elsevier India, 2009.
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