neoplasia

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noun

The formation of new tissue

Less commonScrabble 11

Meanings

nounneoplasia (countable and uncountable, plural neoplasias)

plural neoplasias

  1. countableuncountablebiologyThe formation of new tissue
  2. countableuncountablemedicineThe formation of a neoplasm

    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.

    2014, Cheryl B. Greenacre, Teresa Y. Morishita, Backyard Poultry Medicine and Surgery, page 230

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