(pathology) a waxy translucent complex protein resembling starch that results from degeneration of tissue
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pathology.Anaplasia
loss of structural differentiation within a cell or group of cells often with increased capacity for multiplication, as in a malignant tumor
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(pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pathology.(pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pathology.(pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pathology.(pathology) a deadly form of gangrene usually caused by clostridium bacteria that produce toxins that cause tissue death; can be used…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pathology.(pathology) gangrene that develops in the presence of arterial obstruction and is characterized by dryness of the dead tissue and a da…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pathology.(pathology) gangrene that develops in the presence of arterial obstruction and is characterized by dryness of the dead tissue and a da…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pathology.(pathology) a deadly form of gangrene usually caused by clostridium bacteria that produce toxins that cause tissue death; can be used…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pathology.(pathology) a deadly form of gangrene usually caused by clostridium bacteria that produce toxins that cause tissue death; can be used…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pathology.(pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pathology.(pathology) a deadly form of gangrene usually caused by clostridium bacteria that produce toxins that cause tissue death; can be used…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pathology.(pathology) a deadly form of gangrene usually caused by clostridium bacteria that produce toxins that cause tissue death; can be used…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pathology.(pathology) a deadly form of gangrene usually caused by clostridium bacteria that produce toxins that cause tissue death; can be used…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pathology.(pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pathology.(pathology) not progressing or increasing; or progressing slowly
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pathology.(pathology) the phase in the development of an infection between the time a pathogen enters the body and the time the first symptoms a…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pathology.(pathology) inability of a bodily part or organ to function normally
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pathology.(pathology) the spread of pathogenic microorganisms or malignant cells to new sites in the body; "the tumor's invasion of surrounding…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pathology.Words connected by meaning
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a type of cell death in which the cell uses specialized cellular machinery to kill itself; a cell suicide mechanism that enables metaz…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: loss, structural, differentiation, cell, group.primitive cell or group of cells from which a mother cell develops
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: loss, structural, differentiation, cell, group.primitive cell or group of cells from which a mother cell develops
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: loss, structural, differentiation, cell, group.any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division; it may spread to other parts of the body through the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: loss, structural, differentiation, cell, group.a type of cell death in which the cell uses specialized cellular machinery to kill itself; a cell suicide mechanism that enables metaz…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: loss, structural, differentiation, cell, group.T cell with CD4 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and secretes lymphokines that stimulate B ce…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: loss, structural, differentiation, cell, group.T cell with CD4 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and secretes lymphokines that stimulate B ce…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: loss, structural, differentiation, cell, group.a thin membrane (a double layer of lipids) enclosing the cytoplasm of a cell; proteins in the membrane control passage of ions (like s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: loss, structural, differentiation, cell, group.A nucleated cell having an envelope or cell wall, as a red blood corpuscle or an epithelial cell; a cell concerned in growth.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: loss, structural, differentiation, cell, group.a thin membrane (a double layer of lipids) enclosing the cytoplasm of a cell; proteins in the membrane control passage of ions (like s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: loss, structural, differentiation, cell, group.(biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function; "cell differentiation in the developing embryo"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: loss, structural, differentiation, cell, group.Growth from within; multiplication of cells by endogenous division, as in the development of one or more cells in the interior of a pa…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: loss, structural, differentiation, cell, group.Explore Academic Dictionary
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