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Hyperplasia

"Hyperplasia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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An increase in the number of cells in a tissue or organ without tumor formation. It differs from HYPERTROPHY, which is an increase in bulk without an increase in the number of cells.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Hyperplasia" by people in this website by year, and whether "Hyperplasia" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 95 publications over 29 distinct years, with a maximum of 7 publications in 2000 and 2005 and 2007 and 2022
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