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)
FeatureAbsenceDeficitIncreaseTransformationNormal
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 --
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Others:

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References

  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

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