dysplasia

1. 1.

   abnormal development (of organs or cells) or an abnormal structure resulting from such growth

   Broaderabnormality

   Narroweraplasiafibrous dysplasia of bonehypertrophyhyperplasiahypoplasiaanaplasia

Other forms of dysplasia

plural

dysplasias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dysplasia

What does dysplasia mean?

dysplasia means "abnormal development (of organs or cells) or an abnormal structure resulting from such growth".

How many syllables are in dysplasia?

dysplasia has 3 syllables: dys-pla-sia. The stress falls on "pla". In IPA it is /ˌdɪˈspleɪʒə/.

Is dysplasia a common word?

dysplasia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.