The following is a list of terms used to describe biological disorders of development, arranged by root word and shared prefix:
| Feature | Absence | Deficit | Increase | Transformation | Normal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primordium[1] (congenital development) |
Agenesis[2] | Dysgenesis | - | - | |||||||||
| Plasia[3] (cell formation) |
Aplasia,[4] anaplasia[5] | Hypoplasia,[6] dysplasia,[7] retroplasia[8] | Hyperplasia,[9] neoplasia,[10] proplasia,[11] prosoplasia[12] | Heteroplasia,[13] metaplasia,[14] desmoplasia[15] | Euplasia[16] | ||||||||
| Plastia (remodeling) |
Aplastia | Displastia | - | Heteroplastia | - | ||||||||
| Trophy[17] (growth rates) |
Atrophy[18] | Hypotrophy,[19] Dystrophy[20] | Hypertrophy,[21] pseudohypertrophy[22] | - | Eutrophy[23] | ||||||||
| Trophic (stimulates growth) |
Atrophic | Hypotrophic, dystrophic | Hypertrophic | - | Eutrophic | ||||||||
| Typia (quality or peculiarity) |
Atypia[24] | - | - | - | Ortotypia | ||||||||
| Soma (body living matter) |
- | Microsomia | Macrosomy, macrosomia | - | - | ||||||||
| - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||||
| Others: | |||||||||||||