anaplasia in English

noun

loss of structural differentiation of unique features inside a cell or group of cells; dedifferentiatio

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1. The tumours that develop show a “progession” from well differentiated neoplasia to completely undifferentiated anaplasia.

2. Protoplasmic astrocytomas and multiform glioblastomas showed higher grade of anaplasia and dysplasia than the parent neoplastic tissue.

3. Having anaplasia in a tumor usually means that the tumor is malignant, although a malignant tumor need not be anaplastic.

4. The histologic determination of the degree of tissue anaplasia and grade of malignancy of gliomas is based upon qualitative histological features (nuclear pleomorphism, mitoses, endothelial proliferation, tumor necrosis).

5. Cystic and adenomatous hyperplasia, anaplasia (dysplasia) and carcinoma in situ of the endometrium have been observed in endometrium prior to the development of adenocarcinoma both in retrospective and prospective studies.

6. Anaplasia is a term that refers to the histologic grade of a tumor. Anaplastic tumors are poorly differentiated , meaning that their cell s look primitive and do not resemble normal cells.

7. The ultrastructure of these experimental tumours was, in spite of a marked anaplasia, essentially similar to the ultrastructure of human neurinomas; thus these tumours can be regarded as equivalent to human neurinomas.

8. In the normal gastric mucosa, primarily in the region of the goblet part of the foveolar cells and in the surface epithelium there is a moderately intense to weak phospho-amidase activity. With epithelial proliferation and anaplasia the activity increases.