Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Defective development resulting in the absence of all or part of an organ or tissue.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Defective or arrested development in a tissue or an organ.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Med.) Incomplete or faulty development.
- n. (Med.) a defect, retardation, or cessation of the process of generation of blood cells.
WordNet 3.0
- n. failure of some tissue or organ to develop
Examples
“Other findings include disseminated intravascular coagulation, bone marrow aplasia with leukopenia and thrombocytopenia, elevated liver enzyme values, hypocalcemia, hyponatremia and rhabdomyolysis.”
“Bismuth C, Gaultier M, Conso F. Medullary aplasia after acute colchicine poisoning. 20 cases.”
“This may include splenic sequestration, transient red cell aplasia and hyperhemolysis.”
“Causes of a high MCV include liver disease, alcohol abuse, hypothyroidism, reticulocytosis, marrow aplasia, vitamin B12 or folic acid deficiency, and myelofibrosis.”
“CASE SUMMARY: Islam Alassouli is a four-year child living in Khan Younis camp, in southern Gaza. 12-days from birth Islam was diagnosed with pure red cell aplasia (PRCA).”
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“Other names for the condition that today are rarely used include Shprintzen syndrome, conotruncal anomaly face syndrome, Cayler craniofacial syndrome, congenital thymic aplasia and thymic hypoplasia.”
“There was one case of aplasia cutis congenita in the surviving member of a twin pair, and another of multiple malformations including cleft palate and chondrodysplasia punctata born to a mother being treated for systemic lupus erythematosus.”
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“Pure recent aplasia was referred nonspecific to untreated being of iodine with reticulocytopenia.”
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