hyperplasia

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hyperplasia

  • /ˌhaɪ.pɚˈpleɪ.ʒə/

noun hyperplasias

  1. countable, uncountable An increase in the size of a tissue or organ due to increased number of cells. But we can no longer regard the mere fact of these diffuse condensations of the lung becoming yellow and caseous as an evidence of their tuberculous nature, especially since the pathological anatomists, and among them Virchow, have shown that formations of the most different kind, having not the sli

    Similar: hypergenesis

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noun increase in the size of a tissue or organ

Españolhiperplasia
中文增生 zēngshēng
हिन्दीअतिवर्धन ativardhan
Françaishyperplasie
Italianoiperplasia

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@misc{hyperplasia_2026,
  title = {hyperplasia},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hyperplasia},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}