anaplasia

Anaplasia: Definition

Anaplasia is a term pathologists use to describe cancer cells that have lost the appearance and organization of the normal cells they came from. In healthy tissue, cells are differentiated — meaning they have developed specialized shapes and functions suited to the organ they belong to. Anaplastic cells have shed this specialization entirely. They look …
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Anaplastic: Definition

Anaplastic is an adjective used to describe tumor cells that have lost the normal appearance and organization of the tissue they came from. When a pathologist describes cells or a tumor as anaplastic, it means those cells look highly abnormal under the microscope — they have shed the specialized features of normal tissue and no …
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