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Definition of Metaplasia

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Metaplasia

1. The change in the type of adult cells in a tissue to a form which is not formal for that tissue. Origin: Gr. Plassein = to form This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Metaplasia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text-book of Pathology by Alfred Stengel (1906)
"metaplasia. metaplasia is the term applied to the transformation of one form of tissue ... In other cases of metaplasia the cells may l>e primarily altered, ..."

2. A Handbook of Pathological Anatomy and Histology: With an Introductory by Francis Delafield, Theophil Mitchell Prudden (1896)
"This change of one form of tissue into another is called metaplasia. ... While metaplasia is most common among the members of the connective-tissue group, ..."

3. General Pathology: Or the Science of the Causes, Nature and Course of the by Ernst Ziegler (1903)
"The metaplasia of connective tissue is to be distinguished both from simple degeneration and also from processes of growth. From the Fio. 178. ..."

4. Primary Malignant Growths of the Lungs and Bronchi: A Pathological and by Isaac Adler (1912)
"It is necessary to touch briefly on some of the problems of metaplasia in order ... Virchow, as is well known, assigned a very great role to metaplasia in ..."

5. Text-book of Meat Hygiene: With Special Consideration to Ante-mortem and by Richard Heinrich Edelmann, John Robbins Mohler (1908)
"metaplasia The hypertrophy of an organ through enlargement of the ... The condition designated as metaplasia, represents transformation of already developed ..."

6. A grammar of the Greek language, chiefly from the Germ. of R. Kühner by William Edward Jelf, Raphael Kühner (1861)
"metaplasia. §. 117. Where there is one nominative and two forms of inflexion, one of which is ... For the metaplasia of the II. decl., see §. 85. 1. Oos. 2. ..."

7. General Pathology: Or, The Science of the Causes, Nature and Course of the by Ernst Ziegler (1899)
"... metaplasia OP THE TISSUES. ... By metaplasia of a tissue is understood a process by which an ..."

8. A Text-book of Pathology by William George MacCallum (1916)
"Their early differentiation. metaplasia. Regeneration as exemplified in the new formation of various tissue. REPAIR General Phenomena of Repair. ..."

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