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| | Dorlands Medical Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28) |
 | | cervical dysplasia, dysplasia of cervix, cellular deviations from the normal in the epithelium of the uterine cervix, which may begin as basal cell hyperplasia and progress through more disorderly epithelial changes toward anaplasia; it is considered a precursor to carcinoma. |
 | | oculoauricular dysplasia, oculoauriculovertebral (OAV) dysplasia, a congenital condition in which colobomas of the upper eyelid, epibulbar dermoids, bilateral accessory auricular appendages anterior to the ears, and vertebral anomalies are frequently associated with characteristic facies, consisting of asymmetry of the skull, prominent frontal bossing, low hairline, mandibular hypoplasia, low-set ears, and sometimes hemifacial microstomia. |
 | | renal dysplasia, a congenital disorder of the kidney, characterized by the persistence of cartilage, undifferentiated mensenchyme, and immature collecting tublules and by abnormal lobar organization; it may be unilateral or bilateral, total or subtotal, and is nearly always cystic. |
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