paraplasticadj.
/ˌparəˈplastɪk/, U.S. /ˌpɛrəˈplæstɪk/ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > growth or excrescence > [adjective]
waxinga1425
excrescent1633
sarcomatous1754
warted1802
prurient1822
paraplastic1853
neoplastic1871
dysplastic1925
1853 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 9) Paraplastic, possessed of depraved formative powers,—as Carcinoma.
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1893 A. Hyatt in Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 26 97 The stages of such forms could be collectively spoken of as paraplastic with relation to the ontogeny of others of their own type or allied types.
3. Cell Biology. Of, relating to, or designating paraplasm; = paraplasmic adj. at paraplasm n. Derivatives disused.
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fungating1795
round-celled1867
pseudohypertrophic1868
round-cell1870
homologous1871
paraplastic1896
paraplasmic1901
sarcoid1935
Letterer–Siwe1936
fibrogenic1953
sarcoidal1961
lymphoproliferative1964
1896 Proc. Royal Soc. 1895–6 59 73 They [sc. microsomes] always form part of the cytomitoma, and are therefore plasmatic, and not paraplastic.
1900 Proc. Royal Soc. 1899–1900 66 433 The combinations into which they [sc. foreign bodies] enter with the cells, and notably with the not really living parts of them (Kupffer's paraplastic portions), are very unstable.
1922 Science 1 Sept. 237/2 Agglutination is likewise the basic factor, which insures the possibility of the formation of paraplastic structures in which the products of adjoining cells are united into a homogeneous whole.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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