The following is a list of terms used to describe biological disorders of development, arranged by root word and shared prefix:
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Biological development disorders (cellular, tissue and organic)
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 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
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