anaplasia
Synonyms: anaplastic
Definition: In pathology, oncology, anaplasia is characteristics of a cell (structure and orientation) that make it identifiable as a cancer cell and malignant. There is lack of differentiation, which is characteristic of some tumour cells. (CNet) ANAPLASTIC is the adjective form, e.g., anaplastic cells.
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