1871 C. H. Hackley tr. T. Billroth Gen. Surg. Pathol. & Therapeutics xx. 553 Our present knowledge about the independent life of pathologically-neoplastic cells.

1883 Amer. Naturalist 17 100 Professor Lieberkuhn treats of metaplastic and neoplastic ossification, as exhibited in the limb-bones of Chelonia midas.

1890 A. Hill tr. H. Obersteiner Anat. Central Nerv. Organs 146 Of great importance is the appearance of neoplastic elements (sarcoma- and carcinoma-cells) in the lymph-spaces.

1918 Amer. Naturalist 52 402 As a matter of fact the malignant neoplastic cells (neocytes) do sometimes resemble the specific tissue-cells of the site of origin.

1946 Rep. Internat. Control Atomic Energy (Dept. of State, Washington) II. iii. 17 We should not be astonished if the greatest benefit of this program were..to lie in therapy for some of the neo-plastic diseases, such as cancer.

1967 Ann. Internal Med. 66 256/2 Intracavitary quinacrine was used in the treatment of neoplastic effusions in 12 adult patients.

1980 Endocrinology 106 887 The different cell markers..may be helpful in identifying mammary cells in stages of differentiation and neoplastic transformation.

1997 Jrnl. Amer. Dental Assoc. 128 1411 Dental practitioners need to be able to differentiate sialadenosis from an inflammatory or neoplastic process to prevent unnecessary treatment.

1934 J. J. Sweeney Plastic Redirections in 20th Cent. Painting 40 Piet Mondrian, member of the Dutch ‘de Stijl’ group and founder of the Neoplastic school, can..be taken as a producer of..‘abstractions’... Yet, Mondrian has said, ‘It is a great error to envisage a Neoplastic work as a total abstraction from life.’

1972 Listener 27 July 126/3 Mondrian's neo-plastic paintings are above all works of relationship.

1991 Art in Amer. Apr. 163/2 Almost everything in this small exhibition of Holtzman's works, dating from the '30s until his death in 1987, was Neoplastic in style.