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<pathology, oncology> Characteristics of a cell (structure and orientation) that make it identifiable as a cancer cell and malignant.
There is lack of differentiation, which is characteristic of some tumour cells.
Origin: Gr. Plassein = to form
(16 Dec 1997)
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