metaplasia Definition
meta·pla·sia (met′ə plā′z̸hə)
metaplasia Related Forms
met′a·plas′·tic (-plas′tik) adjective
metaplasia Usage Examples
Converse of object
specialize: There was 80 % agreement in the definition of BO ( columnar lined esophagus containing specialized intestinal metaplasia on biopsy ).
Adjective modifier
- agnogenic: There are several of these: polycythaemia vera, chronic myeloid leukemia, essential thrombocythaemia, and agnogenic myeloid metaplasia.
- myeloid: Our results are in keeping with the assumption that generalization, indicated by myeloid metaplasia, has a prodigious impact on prognosis in IMF.
- squamous: This has happened in this example; over the surface there is extensive squamous metaplasia.
- intestinal: Biopsies taken from this area reveal an incomplete, patchy, intestinal metaplasia with goblet cells.
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