The following is a list of terms used to describe biological disorders of development, arranged by root word and shared prefix:
| Feature | Absence | Deficit | Increase | Transformation | Normal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Primordium
[1] (congenital development) |
Agenesis [2] | Dysgenesis | - | - | |||||||||
|
Plasia
[3] (cell formation) |
Aplasia, [4] anaplasia [5] | Hypoplasia, [6] dysplasia, [7] retroplasia [8] | Hyperplasia, [9] neoplasia, [10] proplasia, [11] prosoplasia [12] | Heteroplasia, [13] metaplasia, [14] desmoplasia [15] | Euplasia [16] | ||||||||
| Plastia (remodeling) |
Aplastia | Displastia | - | Heteroplastia | - | ||||||||
|
Trophy
[17] (growth rates) |
Atrophy [18] | Hypotrophy, [19] Dystrophy [20] | Hypertrophy, [21] pseudohypertrophy [22] | - | Eutrophy [23] | ||||||||
|
Trophic (stimulates growth) |
Atrophic | Hypotrophic, dystrophic | Hypertrophic | - | Eutrophic | ||||||||
|
Typia (quality or peculiarity) |
Atypia [24] | - | - | - | Ortotypia | ||||||||
|
Soma (body living matter) |
- | Microsomia | Macrosomy, macrosomia | - | - | ||||||||
| - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||||
| Others: | |||||||||||||
References
- ^ Definition of Primordium. MedicineNet. Retrieved 2016-06-07
- ^ Definition of agenesis. Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Retrieved 2016-06-07
- ^ -plasia. Biology-Online dictionary. Retrieved 2016-06-07
- ^ Stedman's medical dictionary. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins; 1990. p.106. ISBN 0-683-07916-6.
- ^ Anaplasia. Biology-Online dictionary. Retrieved 2016-06-07
- ^ Hypoplasia. Medical dictionary. The Free Dictionary. Retrieved 2016-06-07
- ^ Dysplasia. Biology-Online dictionary. Retrieved 2016-06-07
- ^ Retroplasia. Medical dictionary. The Free Dictionary. Retrieved 2016-06-07
- ^ Hyperplasia. MedlinePlus. U.S. National Library of Medicine. Retrieved 2016-06-07
- ^ Definition of neoplasia. Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Retrieved 2016-06-07
- ^ Proplasia. Medical dictionary. The Free Dictionary. Retrieved 2016-06-07
- ^ Definition of prosoplasia. Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Retrieved 2016-06-07
- ^ Definition of heteroplasia. Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Retrieved 2016-06-07
- ^ Definition of metaplasia. Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Retrieved 2016-06-07
- ^ Definition of Desmoplasia. MedicineNet. Retrieved 2016-06-07
- ^ Euplasia. Medical dictionary. The Free Dictionary. Retrieved 2016-06-07
- ^ -trophy. Biology-Online dictionary. Retrieved 2016-06-08
- ^ Atrophy. Biology-Online dictionary. Retrieved 2016-06-08
- ^ Medical Definition of hypotrophy. Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Retrieved 2016-06-08.
- ^ Definition of dystrophy. Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Retrieved 2016-06-08.
- ^ Hypertrophy. Biology-Online dictionary. Retrieved 2016-06-08.
- ^ Medical Definition of pseudohypertrophic. Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Retrieved 2016-06-08.
- ^ Eutrophic. Dictionary.com. Retrieved 2016-06-08.
- ^ Atypia. Biology-Online dictionary. Retrieved 2016-06-08
Bibliography
- Reece JB, Urry LA, Cain ML, Wasserman SA, Minorsky PV, Jackson RB. Campbell Biology (10th ed.). Addison Wesley Longman; 2014. ISBN 978-0321834959