metaplasia

metaplasia /meta·pla·sia/ (met?ah-pla´zhah) the change in the type of adult cells in a tissue to a form abnormal for that tissue.metaplas´tic

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myeloid metaplasia  a syndrome characterized by myeloid tissue in extramedullary sites with nucleated erythrocytes and immature granulocytes in the circulating blood and extramedullary hematopoiesis in the liver and spleen, as well as anemia and splenomegaly. Both a primary form (agnogenic myeloid m.) and forms secondary to carcinoma, leukemia, leukoerythroblastosis, and tuberculosis are known.

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met·a·pla·sia (mt-plzh)

n.

1. Normal transformation of tissue from one type to another, as in the ossification of cartilage to form bone.

2. Transformation of cells from a normal to an abnormal state.

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metaplasia (meˈ·t·plāˑ·zhē·),

n abnormal cell growth in which cells become unlike the normal cells in the tissue of which they are a part.

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metaplasia (met´plā´zh),

n a change in the type of adult cells in a tissue to a form that is not normal for that tissue.

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metaplasia

the change in the type of adult cells in a tissue to a form abnormal for that tissue.