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anaplastic

adjective/ˌænəˈplæstɪk/

C2CEFR level
92/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

Describing poorly differentiated cells that have lost the features of their tissue of origin.

The anaplastic tumour cells bore little resemblance to the tissue from which they arose.

Similar: undifferentiated

Topic: Oncology in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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