Standard Lemma guide

dysplasia

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

  • dĭs-plāʹzhə
  • /dɪsˈpleɪ.ʒə/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: D IH2 S P L EY1 ZH AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

Abnormal development of cells or tissue, often a precancerous stage of growth.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The trauma caused by asynchronous psychological development on children.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

abnormal development (of organs or cells) or an abnormal structure resulting from such growth

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: abnormality, abnormalcy

Narrower terms: aplasia, fibrous dysplasia of bone, hypertrophy, hyperplasia, hypoplasia, anaplasia

History

Etymology

* From dys- + -plasia. * (psychology): Introduced by John Curtis Gowan in 1974.

Across languages

Translations

14 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Catalan: displàsia — abnormal development of cells or tissue
  • Chinese Mandarin: 發育不良 /发育不良 (fāyù bùliáng) — abnormal development of cells or tissue
  • Czech: dysplasie — abnormal development of cells or tissue
  • Finnish: dysplasia — abnormal development of cells or tissue
  • French: dysplasie — abnormal development of cells or tissue
  • German: Dysplasie — abnormal development of cells or tissue
  • Greek: δυσπλασία (dysplasía) — abnormal development of cells or tissue
  • Indonesian: dispepsia — abnormal development of cells or tissue
  • Irish: diospláise — abnormal development of cells or tissue
  • Polish: dysplazja — abnormal development of cells or tissue
  • Portuguese: displasia — abnormal development of cells or tissue
  • Russian: дисплази́я (displazíja) — abnormal development of cells or tissue
  • Slovak: dysplázia — abnormal development of cells or tissue
  • Spanish: displasia — abnormal development of cells or tissue