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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Medicine Relating to the surgical restoration of a lost or absent part.
- adjective Of or characterized by cells that have become less differentiated.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, pertaining to, performed by, or used in the operation of anaplasty: as, an anaplastic instrument.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to anaplasty.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective oncology Of, or relating to, a
tumor that shows littlehistogenetic differentiation . It implies that a tumor is high grade and likely to behave in an aggressive fashion.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to anaplasia
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Examples
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The cancer, known as anaplastic large cell lymphoma, attacks lymph nodes and skin and has been reported in the scar tissue which grows around an implant.
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The cancer, known as anaplastic large cell lymphoma, attacks lymph nodes and skin and has been reported in the scar tissue which grows around an implant.
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The cancer, known as anaplastic large cell lymphoma, attacks lymph nodes and the skin and has been reported in the scar tissue which grows around an implant.
Breast Implants Linked To Cancer AP 2011
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Although the FDA has also recently cautioned that breast implants might be linked to a higher risk of a rare form of lymphoma called anaplastic large cell lymphoma, officials called those chances slim.
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Federal health officials announced Wednesday that they were investigating a possible association between saline and silicone gel-filled breast implants and very rare form of cancer known as anaplastic large cell lymphoma ALCL.
Breast implants linked to rare lymphoma Rob Stein 2011
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The cancer, known as anaplastic large cell lymphoma, attacks lymph nodes and the skin and has been reported in the scar tissue which grows around an implant.
Breast Implants Linked To Cancer AP 2011
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It acted after reviewing studies and doctors' reports in recent years about a small number of women with implants developing a cancer called anaplastic large cell lymphoma.
Implants, Cancer May Be Linked Jennifer Corbett Dooren 2011
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Pfizer also noticed crizotinib had effects on another enzyme implicated in cancer cell growth, known as anaplastic lymphoma kinase, or ALK.
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Numerous medical studies only mention tracheotomy -- in which surgeons cut a hole into a patient's windpipe to aid breathing -- as a treatment for a rare form of thyroid cancer called anaplastic carcinoma.
Archive 2004-10-01 2004
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It may mean he has a very rare, but particularly deadly form of thyroid cancer called anaplastic cancer, and that is a very, very difficult kind of cancer to treat -- Soledad.
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