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Definition: Dysplasia |
DysplasiaNoun1. Abnormal development (of organs or cells) or an abnormal structure resulting from such growth. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Cells that look abnormal under a microscope but are not cancer. (references) |
Medicine | Abnormal tissue development or growth occurring subsequent to the appearance of the primordial cells. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Dysplasia |
| English words defined with "dysplasia": Albright's disease ♦ dysplastic ♦ monostotic fibrous dysplasia ♦ polyostotic fibrous dysplasia. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dysplasia": Albright disease, Albright Syndrome, Albright-McCune-Sternberg syndrome, Albright's syndrome ♦ Cafe-au-Lait Spots, Cystic Adenomatoid Malformation of Lung, Congenital ♦ Fibrocystic Disease of Breast, Fibrous Dysplasia, Monostotic ♦ Hip Dislocation, Congenital ♦ Multicystic Dysplastic Kidney ♦ Nonne-Milroy-Meige disease, Nonne-Milroy-Meige syndrome ♦ Osteoarthritis, Hip ♦ Renal Artery Obstruction ♦ Short Rib-Polydactyly Syndrome. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Biopsy showed mild epithelial dysplasia and candida infection. (references) | |
Polyostotic fibrous dysplasia can often be seen in a plain X-ray picture of the skeleton. (references) | ||
There is no known hormonal or medical treatment effective in controlling progressive polyostotic fibrous dysplasia. (references) | ||
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| "Dysplasia" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dysplasia" is used about 120 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 120 | 29,358 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "dysplasia": Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia ♦ Bronchopulmonary dysplasia ♦ Cervix Dysplasia ♦ Cleidocranial Dysplasia ♦ Dentin Dysplasia ♦ Ectodermal Dysplasia ♦ Fibromuscular Dysplasia ♦ Fibrous Dysplasia of Bone ♦ monostotic fibrous dysplasia ♦ polyostotic fibrous dysplasia ♦ Retinal Dysplasia ♦ Thanatophoric Dysplasia. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "dysplasia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | dysplasi (displasia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | dysplasie (displasia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | dysplasia (displasia), kehityshäiriö (displasia), kasvuhäiriö (displasia, dystrophy), epiteelin erilaistumishäiriö (displasia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | dysplasie (f), dysplasie, maladie constitutionnelle rare à caractère malformatif plus ou moins manifeste, alloplasie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Dysplasie (displasia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | δυσπλασία (displasia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | displasia (displasia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ysplasiaday displasia (displasia, Holt-Oram atriodigital syndrome). (various references) displasia (displasia). (various references) dysplasi (displasia), dysmorfi (displasia), deformitet (deformity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dysplasia": dysplasias. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dysplasia" (pronounced di'splā"zhu) |
| 3 | -ā" zh u | aphasia, euthanasia, Fantasia. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-i-l-p-s-s-y" | |
-1 letter: displays. | |
-2 letters: apsidal, dalasis, display, salpids. | |
-3 letters: aliyas, assail, dalasi, dipsas, paisas, palais, plaids, playas, salads, salpas, salpid, sayids, spails, splays. | |
-4 letters: alias, aliya, apsis, aspis, assai, assay, asyla, daily, daisy, dials, idyls, lapis, lisps, lysis, lyssa, padis, pails, paisa, palsy, plaid, playa, plays, sadis, sadly, saids, sails, salad, salpa, salps, salsa, sapid, sayid. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-i-l-p-s-s-y" | |
+1 letter: dysplasias. | |
+4 letters: spasmodically. | |
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