Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Medicine Relating to the surgical restoration of a lost or absent part.
- adj. Of or characterized by cells that have become less differentiated.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of, pertaining to, performed by, or used in the operation of anaplasty: as, an anaplastic instrument.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of, or relating to, a tumor that shows little histogenetic differentiation. It implies that a tumor is high grade and likely to behave in an aggressive fashion.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to anaplasty.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to anaplasia
Examples
“Although the FDA has also recently cautioned that breast implants might be linked to a higher risk of a rare form of lymphoma called anaplastic large cell lymphoma, officials called those chances slim.”
“The cancer, known as anaplastic large cell lymphoma, attacks lymph nodes and the skin and has been reported in the scar tissue which grows around an implant.”
“The cancer, known as anaplastic large cell lymphoma, attacks lymph nodes and skin and has been reported in the scar tissue which grows around an implant.”
USA Today: FDA sees possible cancer risk with breast implants
“Federal health officials announced Wednesday that they were investigating a possible association between saline and silicone gel-filled breast implants and very rare form of cancer known as anaplastic large cell lymphoma ALCL.”
The Washington Post: Breast implants linked to rare lymphoma
“It acted after reviewing studies and doctors' reports in recent years about a small number of women with implants developing a cancer called anaplastic large cell lymphoma.”
“Pfizer also noticed crizotinib had effects on another enzyme implicated in cancer cell growth, known as anaplastic lymphoma kinase, or ALK.”
The Wall Street Journal: New Pfizer Drug Shrinks Some Lung-Cancer Tumors
“Numerous medical studies only mention tracheotomy -- in which surgeons cut a hole into a patient's windpipe to aid breathing -- as a treatment for a rare form of thyroid cancer called anaplastic carcinoma.”
“It may mean he has a very rare, but particularly deadly form of thyroid cancer called anaplastic cancer, and that is a very, very difficult kind of cancer to treat -- Soledad.”
“The cancer, known as anaplastic large cell lymphoma, attacks the lymph nodes and skin and has been reported in the scar tissue which grows around the implant after it is inserted.”
“According to 60 cases reported to the FDA over the past 13 years, a rare cancer known as anaplastic large cell lymphoma that attacks lymph nodes has been found in the scar tissue that surrounds the breast implant.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘anaplastic’.
-
End of Plastic
List of words, mostly adjectives, that end in -plastic.
Ironic that in this list "plastic", contrary to its definition, remains fixed and immutable at the end of each word. Only the ac...dysplastic, paraneoplastic, desmoplastic, thermoplastic, symplastic, apoplastic, alloplastic, anaplastic, homoplastic, amnioplastic, arthroplastic, autoplastic and 159 more...
-
Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7762 more...
Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.