(n.) Growth or development of new material; neoplasty.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sinus lining cells give rise to a well defined entity of neoplasia which is proposed to be termed sinus lining cell reticulosarcoma.
(2) The relationship between technique of obtaining Papanicolaou smears, presence of endocervical cells, and rate of cervical neoplasia was studied by comparing an endocervical and ectocervical nylon brush (Bayne brush), Ayre spatula plus endocervical brush, and spatula plus cotton-tipped swab in a randomized, prospective trial involving 11,061 patients.
(3) Minimal breast cancer should include lobular carcinoma in situ (lobular neoplasia) and ductal carcinoma in situ regardless of nodal status, and (tentatively) invasive carcinoma smaller than 1 cm in total diameter, if axillary lymph nodes are not involved.
(4) Taken together with recent data from transgenic animals, this in vitro observation has possible implications for our view of the pathogenesis of pancreatic neoplasia.
(5) On the other hand conclusions seem to be possible on growth speed of neoplasia.
(6) Use of oestrogens without progestogens is associated with a twofold to threefold increase in risk of endometrial neoplasia.
(7) Inoculated cell dose and neoplasia percent incidence have been noticed to be closely related, but unexpectedly two doses exist for each tumour, a comparatively small one and a definitely larger one, which cause nearly the same percent incidence.
(8) The characteristic predisposition to neoplasia exists, however, as probably does that to diabetes mellitus.
(9) The frequency of colorectal neoplasia was assessed by colonoscopy in 48 patients with a history of colorectal cancer in a first-degree relative.
(10) The changes in nuclear morphology (karyometry) and DNA content in prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN) were analyzed on tissue sections.
(11) It is clear that some degree of thyroid inhibition can be accommodated within the bounds of the normal feedback mechanism without the induction of either hyperplasia or neoplasia.
(12) In contrast, there was only a 5% incidence of malignant neoplasia and a 29% incidence of benign neoplasia in the respiratory region.
(13) Conventional follow-up of patients with colonic neoplasia will at best only identify symptomatic lesions and those visible with a sigmoidoscope, and will therefore fail to identify new malignant lesions in time for effective treatment.
(14) These data, on normal tissue tolerance, should be a value in future programs initiated in experimental radiation therapy of both animal and human neoplasia utilizing protons, alpha particles, and carbon ions.
(15) Recent theoretical developments in health psychology and allied disciplines on coping behaviour and social support should be integrated into biomedical models of the aetiology, pathogenesis and clinical course of malignant neoplasia.
(16) The gene for multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A (MEN2A) has been mapped to the pericentromeric region of chromosome 10 by linkage analysis.
(17) Moreover, the association of an intestinal plasmacytic neoplasia with the heavy chain of the immunoglobulin A in the serum agree with what is known of the normal synthesis by most of the plasma cells of the digestive tract of this immunoglobulin.
(18) Fifteen women were found to have cervical neoplasia, of whom nine had either never been screened before or had last been screened more than five years previously; a further two women (one of whom was found to have early invasive cancer) had previously had an abnormal smear for which the recommended follow-up had not been done.
(19) It, therefore, remains to be determined what duration of exposure or other factors are critical for reversibility or progression of EA-induced forestomach mucosal hyperplasia to neoplasia.
(20) The viremic animals as a group were characterized by a significantly reduced life-span that was not related to neoplasia.
Neoplastic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to neoplasty, or neoplasia.
Example Sentences:
(1) Interleukin-4 (IL-4) is a cytokine, with potential anti-neoplastic effects.
(2) The number of neoplastic cells in each cell suspension was determined by cytologic criteria.
(3) The nature of these infiltrative foci remains uncertain; however, they are unlikely to have been of neoplastic origin and may be due to interleukin-2-induced lymphocytic infiltration.
(4) All but two neoplastic foci from the 83 tumors stained for prolactin, and 14 of these also stained for growth hormone.
(5) The incomplete penetrance of the neoplastic phenotype and the monoclonality of lymphoid tumors suggest that tumor formation in v-fps mice requires genetic or epigenetic events in addition to expression of the P130gag-fps protein-tyrosine kinase.
(6) Losses of RNase activities in preneoplastic tissues are followed by changes in the properties of cytoplasmic RNA probably due to alterations in ribosomes in areas of neoplastic transformation.
(7) The intraosseous neoplastic extent has been compared with macroslides of surgical specimens in 24 cases.
(8) The effect of various anti-neoplastic drugs on erythrophagocytosis was studied.
(9) It is concluded that the BD-5 antibody reacts with an epitope normally present on intestinal mucosa, which, following neoplastic transformation, is ectopically expressed also on gastric and pancreatic carcinomas.
(10) Immense amounts of data about cancer-associated chromosome aberrations have been collected during the last 10 years, and the systematic evaluation of these data has disclosed a number of correlations between chromosome change and neoplastic disease.
(11) Gangliogliomas are rare benign tumors of the central nervous system containing neoplastic ganglion and low grade glial cells.
(12) The identification of the viral oncogene v-erbA carried by an avian leukemia retrovirus has directly demonstrated the involvement of hormone receptors in neoplastic transformation.
(13) Ultrastructural differences between normal neoplasmic cells observed in this work may be the cause of the behaviour of neoplastic cells in tissue culture.
(14) Malignant angioendotheliomatosis is a lymphoma in which the neoplastic cells accumulate in vascular lumens.
(15) Oncomodulin might be a suitable neoplastic marker to study chemical carcinogenesis.
(16) An attempt has been made to construct an assay potentially suitable for use with primary cultures of human tumours to measure the survival of exponentially growing monolayer cultures after exposure to anti-neoplastic drugs.
(17) The neoplastic T cells of three patients had helper activity on both PWM- and IL-2-driven Ig synthesis, and in addition produced IL-2 in response to PWM stimulation.
(18) Conventional lymphography still yields the best results in differentiating between primary lymphedema with aplasia of the aorto-iliac collectors and a secondary form due to neoplastic disease.
(19) The flounder developed renal and pancreatic neoplasms and hepatotoxic neoplastic precursor lesions, demonstrating trophic transfer of sediment-bound carcinogens up the food chain.
(20) This postoperative surveillance was aimed at discovering benign or malignant neoplastic growth within the remaining large bowel.