hyperplasian.
/hʌɪpəˈpleɪzɪə/ Pathology.
A form of hypertrophy consisting in abnormal multiplication of the cellular elements of a part or organ; excessive cell-formation.
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polysarcia1693
carnification1744
pullulation1829
hypertrophy1834
heteroplasia1854
neoplasia1871
hyperplasia1873
pseudohypertrophy1873
hemihypertrophy1900
myelomatosis1904
hypercellularity1908
pleocytosis1911
myelosis1916
lymphoblastoma1920
histiocytosis1924
plasmocytosis1924
reticuloendotheliosis1925
reticulosis1932
sarcoidosis1936
retrolental fibroplasia1942
fibrogenesis1952
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1873 T. H. Green Introd. Pathol. & Morbid Anat. (ed. 2) 93 The increased nutritive activity of the elements, which leads to an increase in their size, leads also to an increase in their number, and to the formation of a new tissue, which is similar to that from which it originated:—this is termed numerical hypertrophy, or hyperplasia.
1879 F. J. Bumstead & R. W. Taylor Pathol. & Treatm. Venereal Dis. (rev. ed.) iii. xvi. 593 In either case hyper~plasia is the morbid process, but in scleroses the newly-formed cells persist..while in gummata they are eliminated.
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hyperplasic adj. /-ˈplæzɪk/ of, pertaining to, or exhibiting hyperplasia.
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hypertrophied1835
hypertrophous1836
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hyperplastic1873
hyperplasic1886
polysarcous1890
hypercellular1955
1886 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Hyperplasic.
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hypertrophied1835
hypertrophous1836
heteroplastic1854
hyperplastic1873
hyperplasic1886
polysarcous1890
hypercellular1955
1873 T. H. Green Introd. Pathol. & Morbid Anat. (ed. 2) 149 The new formation of lymphatic tissue is in the first place hyperplastic..subsequently, however, it may become heteroplastic.
1873 T. H. Green Introd. Pathol. & Morbid Anat. (ed. 2) 258 As the fever subsides, the hyperæmia diminishes, the hyperplastic process ceases.
1876 S. W. Gross Gross's Pract. Treat. Dis. Bladder (ed. 3) i. ii. 48 Epithelial hyperplasia, with epidermoid transformation, is only seen as the result of frequent relapses of chronic inflammation.
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