Medical Terminology / Unit 2 MedTerm 0087 short lesson, about 20 seconds
-plasia: Formation of Tissue
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The idea
The suffix plasia names the formation or growth of new tissue of the kind its root identifies.
In practice
Hyperplasia is an increase in the number of cells in a tissue.
Where people slip
Trophy is cells changing size; plasia is cells changing number. The prefixes on each are identical.
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