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• -plasia

  a combining form with the meaning “growth, cellular multiplication,” of the kind specified by the initial element: hypoplasia. also, -plasy. -plasia combining form indicating growth, development, or change hypoplasia word origin from new latin, from greek plasis a moulding, from pl-ssein to mould -plasia comb. form denoting “formation,” mod.l., from gk. plasis “molding, formation,” from […]

• -plasm

  a combining form with the meanings “living substance,” “tissue,” “substance of a cell,” used in the formation of compound words: endoplasm; neoplasm; cytoplasm. -plasm combining form (in biology) indicating the material forming cells protoplasm, cytoplasm derived forms -plasmic, combining_form:in_adjective word origin from greek plasma something moulded; see plasma -plasm suff. material forming cells or tissue: […]

• -plast

  a combining form meaning “living substance,” “organelle,” “cell,” used in the formation of compound words: chloroplast; chromoplast; protoplast. -plast combining form indicating an organized living cell or particle of living matter protoplast word origin from greek plastos formed, from pl-ssein to form -plast comb. form denoting “something made,” from gk. plastos “formed, molded,” from pl-ssein […]

• -plasty

  a combining form with the meanings “molding, formation” “surgical repair, plastic surgery,” used in the formation of compound words: angioplasty; galvanoplasty; heteroplasty. -plasty combining form indicating plastic surgery involving a bodily part, tissue, or a specified process rhinoplasty, neoplasty word origin from greek -plastia; see -plast -plasty comb. form meaning “act or process of forming, […]

• -plasy

  variant of -plasia. -plasia combining form indicating growth, development, or change hypoplasia word origin from new latin, from greek plasis a moulding, from pl-ssein to mould -plasy suff. variant of -plasia.

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