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List of biological development disorders

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The following is a list of terms used to describe biological disorders of development, arranged by root word and shared prefix:

Biological development disorders (cellular, tissue and organic)
Feature Absence Deficit Increase Transformation Normal
Primordium[1]
(congenital development)
Agenesis[2] Dysgenesis - -
Plasia[3]
(cell formation)
Aplasia,[4] anaplasia[5] Hypoplasia,[6] dysplasia,[7] retroplasia[8] Hyperplasia,[9] neoplasia,[10] proplasia,[11] prosoplasia[12] Heteroplasia,[13] metaplasia,[14] desmoplasia[15] Euplasia[16]
Plastia
(remodeling)
Aplastia Displastia - Heteroplastia -
Trophy[17]
(growth rates)
Atrophy[18] Hypotrophy,[19] Dystrophy[20] Hypertrophy,[21] pseudohypertrophy[22] - Eutrophy[23]
Trophic
(stimulates growth)
Atrophic Hypotrophic, dystrophic Hypertrophic - Eutrophic
Typia
(quality or peculiarity)
Atypia[24] - - - Ortotypia
Soma
(body living matter)
- Microsomia Macrosomy, macrosomia - -
- - - - - -
Others:

References

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  1. ^ Definition of Primordium. MedicineNet. Retrieved 2016-06-07
  2. ^ Definition of agenesis. Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Retrieved 2016-06-07
  3. ^ -plasia. Biology-Online dictionary. Retrieved 2016-06-07
  4. ^ Stedman's medical dictionary. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins; 1990. p.106. ISBN 0-683-07916-6.
  5. ^ Anaplasia. Biology-Online dictionary. Retrieved 2016-06-07
  6. ^ Hypoplasia. Medical dictionary. The Free Dictionary. Retrieved 2016-06-07
  7. ^ Dysplasia. Biology-Online dictionary. Retrieved 2016-06-07
  8. ^ Retroplasia. Medical dictionary. The Free Dictionary. Retrieved 2016-06-07
  9. ^ Hyperplasia. MedlinePlus. U.S. National Library of Medicine. Retrieved 2016-06-07
  10. ^ Definition of neoplasia. Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Retrieved 2016-06-07
  11. ^ Proplasia. Medical dictionary. The Free Dictionary. Retrieved 2016-06-07
  12. ^ Definition of prosoplasia. Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Retrieved 2016-06-07
  13. ^ Definition of heteroplasia. Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Retrieved 2016-06-07
  14. ^ Definition of metaplasia. Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Retrieved 2016-06-07
  15. ^ Definition of Desmoplasia. MedicineNet. Retrieved 2016-06-07
  16. ^ Euplasia. Medical dictionary. The Free Dictionary. Retrieved 2016-06-07
  17. ^ -trophy. Biology-Online dictionary. Retrieved 2016-06-08
  18. ^ Atrophy. Biology-Online dictionary. Retrieved 2016-06-08
  19. ^ Medical Definition of hypotrophy. Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Retrieved 2016-06-08.
  20. ^ Definition of dystrophy. Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Retrieved 2016-06-08.
  21. ^ Hypertrophy. Biology-Online dictionary. Retrieved 2016-06-08.
  22. ^ Medical Definition of pseudohypertrophic. Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Retrieved 2016-06-08.
  23. ^ Eutrophic. Dictionary.com. Retrieved 2016-06-08.
  24. ^ Atypia. Biology-Online dictionary. Retrieved 2016-06-08

Bibliography

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  • Reece JB, Urry LA, Cain ML, Wasserman SA, Minorsky PV, Jackson RB. Campbell Biology (10th ed.). Addison Wesley Longman; 2014. ISBN 978-0321834959