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-plasia: Formation of Tissue

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The suffix plasia names the formation or growth of new tissue of the kind its root identifies.

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Hyperplasia is an increase in the number of cells in a tissue.

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Trophy is cells changing size; plasia is cells changing number. The prefixes on each are identical.