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vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Atrophy | Degeneration and wasting of tissue, organs , or muscle due to decrease in cell size. |
Hypertrophy | Increased size of an organ or muscle due to increased size of individual cells. |
Hyperplasia | An abnormal increase in the number of cells resulting in an increased tissue mass. |
Metaplasia | Replacement of one mature cell type by another mature cell type . |
dysplasia | Disorganized cells that vary in size and shaped with large nuclei. |
Anaplasia | Undifferentiated primitive cells of variable size and shape, associated with cancer. |