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CATAPLASIA

Dictionary entry overview: What does cataplasia mean?

• CATAPLASIA (noun)
The noun CATAPLASIA has 1 sense:

1. (biology) degenerative reversion of cells or tissue to a less differentiated or more primitive form

Familiarity information: CATAPLASIA used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• CATAPLASIA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

(biology) degenerative reversion of cells or tissue to a less differentiated or more primitive form

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("cataplasia" is a kind of...):

degeneration; retrogression (passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form)

Domain category:

biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)

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