noun Pathology.
- defective development or congenital absence of a limb, organ, or other body part.
noun
- pathol congenital absence or abnormal development of an organ or part
1885, medical Latin, from Greek a-, privative prefix (see a- (3)), + -plasia.
n.
- Congenital absence of an organ or tissue.
- Incomplete, retarded, or defective development of an organ or tissue.
- Cessation of the usual regenerative process in an organ or tissue.