APLASIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aplasia mean? 

• APLASIA (noun)
  The noun APLASIA has 1 sense:

1. failure of some tissue or organ to develop

  Familiarity information: APLASIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APLASIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Failure of some tissue or organ to develop

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("aplasia" is a kind of...):

dysplasia (abnormal development (of organs or cells) or an abnormal structure resulting from such growth)

 Context examples 

Also called Blackfan–Diamond anemia, congenital hypoplastic anemia, congenital pure red cell aplasia, DBA, erythrogenesis imperfecta, and inherited erythroblastopenia.

(Diamond-Blackfan anemia, NCI Dictionary)

Gross hypo- or aplasia of one or more long bones of one or more limbs.

(Ectromelia, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Also called Blackfan–Diamond anemia, congenital hypoplastic anemia, congenital pure red cell aplasia, DBA, Diamond-Blackfan anemia, and inherited erythroblastopenia.

(Erythrogenesis imperfecta, NCI Dictionary)

Also called Blackfan–Diamond anemia, congenital hypoplastic anemia, congenital pure red cell aplasia, DBA, Diamond-Blackfan anemia, and erythrogenesis imperfecta.

(Inherited erythroblastopenia, NCI Dictionary)

Also called Blackfan–Diamond anemia, congenital hypoplastic anemia, congenital pure red cell aplasia, Diamond-Blackfan anemia, erythrogenesis imperfecta, and inherited erythroblastopenia.

(DBA, NCI Dictionary)

It includes thyroid gland aplasia and thyroid gland hypoplasia, both result in hypothyroidism.

(Congenital Thyroid Gland Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called congenital hypoplastic anemia, congenital pure red cell aplasia, DBA, Diamond-Blackfan anemia, erythrogenesis imperfecta, and inherited erythroblastopenia.

(Blackfan–Diamond anemia, NCI Dictionary)

Also called Blackfan–Diamond anemia, congenital pure red cell aplasia, DBA, Diamond-Blackfan anemia, erythrogenesis imperfecta, and inherited erythroblastopenia.

(Congenital hypoplastic anemia, NCI Dictionary)

Patients with congenital pure red cell aplasia may have a mutation (change) in one of the genes that make proteins found in the cell’s ribosomes.

(Congenital pure red cell aplasia, NCI Dictionary)

An inherited condition characterized by aplasia of the erythroid series only.

(Congenital pure red cell aplasia, NCI Thesaurus)