Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Lacking form.
- adjective Unable to form or regenerate tissue.
- adjective Of or characterized by aplasia.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not molded, formed, or developed; imperfectly developed: as, aplastic organs.
- Not plastic; not easily molded.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not plastic or easily molded.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to
aplasia . - adjective Refers to the inability of the body to create new
cells , such thattissue cannot grow or regenerate.
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Examples
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Kumamoto University in Japan, who had been collecting urine from people with a disease called aplastic anemia.
NYT > Home Page By ANDREW POLLACK 2010
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Kumamoto University in Japan, who had been collecting urine from people with a disease called aplastic anemia.
NYT > Home Page By ANDREW POLLACK 2010
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Blood and marrow failure syndromes (severe aplastic anemia)
Our Approach to BMT 2010
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And when someone mentions yourname Miami as if you are only aplastic flamingo in someone'syard, or a plastic braless girlon South Beach burning hertits in that sun, the same sunthat burned on my mother's foreheadwhile waited for the bus from FlaglerStreet to North Miami's factoria, yo no se porque nosotrosmi gente lo unico que recordamoses el rojo que dejamosy no el calor que empezamosen el exilio, en Miami.
Yo No Se Didi Menendez 2011
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Bone marrow transplantation is used to treat many patients diagnosed with leukemia the most common cancer among children, aplastic anemia, lymphomas, and other life-threatening diseases.
Chris McGowan: Brazil: A World Leader in Bone Marrow Donors Chris McGowan 2011
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Patients receiving transplants suffer from hematological or non-hematological malignancies, myelodysplastic syndromes, hematological congenital disorders, aplastic anemia, inborn errors of metabolism, or congenital immunodeficiencies.
Stem Cell Lab 2010
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Tests showed it contained benzene, a chemical believed to cause aplastic anemia and leukemia, in a concentration 1,500 times the level safe for people.
Susan Deily-Swearingen: So When Does the Sputnik Moment Begin? Susan Deily-Swearingen 2011
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Some inherited diseases are now known to be caused by telomerase defects, including certain forms of congenital aplastic anemia, in which insufficient cell divisions in the stem cells of the bone marrow lead to severe anemia.
The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Press Release 2009
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Tests showed it contained benzene, a chemical believed to cause aplastic anemia and leukemia, in a concentration 1,500 times the level safe for people.
Susan Deily-Swearingen: So When Does the Sputnik Moment Begin? Susan Deily-Swearingen 2011
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In 2002, 154,000 pounds of Chinese honey contaminated with chloramphenicol, banned in Australia, Canada, Europe, New Zealand and the United States because it treats anthrax but is known to cause bone marrow failure through aplastic anemia -- turned up in our grocery stores, unknowingly.
Dr. Reese Halter: Tons of Unrecognizable Honey Dr. Reese Halter 2011
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