The following is a list of terms used to describe biological disorders of development, arranged by root word and shared prefix:
| Feature | Absence | Deficit | Increase | Transformation | Normal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | - | - | ||||||||
| - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||||
| Others: | |||||||||||||