neoplasia
English
Noun
neoplasia (countable and uncountable, plural neoplasias)
- (biology) The formation of new tissue
- (medicine) The formation of a neoplasm
- 2014, Cheryl B. Greenacre, Teresa Y. Morishita, Backyard Poultry Medicine and Surgery, page 230:
- Ingluviotomy may be indicated for determination of crop masses (neoplasia, food impaction, and foreign bodies), repair damaged tissue (especially from predator bite wounds and infection,) and to gain access to the thoracic esophagus.
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /neoˈplasja/ [ne.oˈpla.sja]
- Rhymes: -asja
- Syllabification: ne‧o‧pla‧sia
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Further reading
- “neoplasia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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