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Definition of aplasia in English: aplasianoun əˈpleɪzɪəəˈplāZHə mass nounMedicine The failure of an organ or tissue to develop or to function normally. Example sentencesExamples - Because this disease is virtually always fatal due to the profound bone marrow aplasia, management is not well defined and is rarely successful.
- Further tests, including a bone marrow sample for leukaemia, failed to confirm a diagnosis but the illness was linked to a rare from of pure red blood cell aplasia.
- Patients undergoing such treatment are at high risk for bone marrow aplasia.
- Transplants of stem cells from either the same person or another person are used to repopulate and regenerate the bone marrow, ‘rescuing’ the patient from aplasia.
- At the time of aplasia, the child with sickle cell disease is highly contagious.
Origin Late 19th century: from a-1 'without' + Greek plasis 'formation'. Definition of aplasia in US English: aplasianounəˈplāZHə Medicine The failure of an organ or tissue to develop or to function normally. Example sentencesExamples - Because this disease is virtually always fatal due to the profound bone marrow aplasia, management is not well defined and is rarely successful.
- Further tests, including a bone marrow sample for leukaemia, failed to confirm a diagnosis but the illness was linked to a rare from of pure red blood cell aplasia.
- Transplants of stem cells from either the same person or another person are used to repopulate and regenerate the bone marrow, ‘rescuing’ the patient from aplasia.
- Patients undergoing such treatment are at high risk for bone marrow aplasia.
- At the time of aplasia, the child with sickle cell disease is highly contagious.
Origin Late 19th century: from a- ‘without’ + Greek plasis ‘formation’. |