What's the difference between metaplasm and metaplast?
Metaplasm
Definition:
(n.) A change in the letters or syllables of a word.
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Metaplast
Definition:
(n.) A word having more than one form of the root.
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(1) 4 patients (4%) were found to have metaplastic changes of the lining epithelium.
(2) The histological changes by light and electron microscopy in these patients demonstrates the metaplastic changes of the basal cell of the mucosa differentiating into mucous and keratin cells.
(3) These particular keratins that were found among others in basal cells could also be detected to a variable extent in metaplastic and dysplastic cervical lesions.
(4) A monoclonal antibody specific for columnar epithelium (RGE 53) gave a positive reaction in endocervical columnar cells and in some immature metaplastic cells but was negative in subcolumnar reserve cells, squamous (metaplastic) cells, dysplastic cells, and most cases of carcinoma in situ.
(5) These histologic patterns enter the differential diagnosis of a variety of atrophic, metaplastic, and proliferative lesions of the prostate gland.
(6) The different sites of the early proliferative and metaplastic responses correlated in their location with the sites of later tumor development.
(7) Non-neoplastic polyps included 32 inflammatory polyps, 32 metaplastic polyps, 27 juvenile polyps and 17 Peutz-Jeghers type polyps.
(8) Metaplastic cartilage was noted in only 7 of the 15 cases.
(9) We discuss the use of cytokeratins as specific markers of squamous differentiation, the relationships between squamous metaplasia and cervical neoplasia, and the involvement of reserve cells in the metaplastic process.
(10) Antireflux surgery has not been shown to result consistently in the regression of the metaplastic epithelium, but potent acid suppression offers a new therapeutic approach that leads to healing of esophagitis and the potential regression of Barrett's epithelium.
(11) Barrett's esophagus is a condition in which the stratified squamous epithelium of the esophagus is replaced by metaplastic columnar epithelium that predisposes to the development of esophageal adenocarcinoma.
(12) None of the control samples contained columnar cells and only 1 of 200 control samples contained metaplastic cells.
(13) This type of reaction involving a metaplastic change in the chondrocyte is particularly common in large weight-bearing joints and may represent a different mechanism of cartilage degeneration to the classically described direct invasion of cartilage by hypertrophic synovial tissue.
(14) Electron microscopic evaluation of glandular epithelium indicates that it represents the process of aberrant differentiation rather than a metaplastic phenomenon.
(15) Eight (72.7%) of 11 metaplastic adenomas and two (33.3%) of six non-metaplastic adenomas had foci of atypical gland proliferation and were considered to be carcinomas.
(16) We undertook a differentiation between metaplastic disturbances in necrosis of the center of the femur head and restorative disturbances.
(17) Pieces of upper lip and lower jaw from 13-day old mouse embryos grown in organ culture with excess vitamin A showed metaplastic changes in epidermis and hair follicles after 7 to 21 days.
(18) None of the six ferritin-conjugated lectins showed higher binding in bronchioles compared to the bronchus, suggesting that a high level of surface oligosaccharides is not necessary for resistance to the metaplastic effects of HNE.
(19) While such metaplastic change has been regarded as a self-defence mechanism or adaptation of the duodenal mucosa against acid, a local decrease of normal endocrine cells, which allegedly function as acid receptors, may lead to alterations of gastroduodenal interaction.
(20) Group 1 consisted of nine patients who had adenocarcinomas plus multiple tubular adenomas (seven) or metaplastic polyps (two).