List of biological development disorders
The following is a list of terms used to describe biological disorders of development, arranged by root word and shared prefix:
| Feature | Absence | Deficit | Increase | Transformation | Normal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primordium (congenital development) | Agenesis | Dysgenesis | - | - | |||||||||
| Plasia (cell formation) | Aplasia, anaplasia | Hypoplasia, dysplasia, retroplasia | Hyperplasia, neoplasia, proplasia, prosoplasia | Heteroplasia, metaplasia, desmoplasia | Euplasia | ||||||||
| Plastia (remodeling) | Aplastia | Displastia | - | Heteroplastia | - | ||||||||
| Trophy (growth rates) | Atrophy | Hypotrophy, Dystrophy | Hypertrophy, pseudohypertrophy | - | Eutrophy | ||||||||
| Trophic (stimulates growth) | Atrophic | Hypotrophic, dystrophic | Hypertrophic | - | Eutrophic | ||||||||
| Typia (quality or peculiarity) | Atypia | - | - | - | Ortotypia | ||||||||
| Soma (body living matter) | - | Microsomia | Macrosomy, macrosomia | - | - | ||||||||
| - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||||
| Others: | |||||||||||||
References
Bibliography
- Reece JB, Urry LA, Cain ML, Wasserman SA, Minorsky PV, Jackson RB. Campbell Biology (10th ed.). Addison Wesley Longman; 2014.ISBN 978-0321834959