anaplastic

/an-uh-plas-tik/US // ˌæn əˈplæs tɪk //UK // (ˌænəˈplæstɪk) //

无弹性,无性繁殖,无性系,非弹性

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

1
Pathology.
- : having reverted to a more primitive form.
- : of or relating to anaplasty.

It was from a neuropathologist, Karl Schwarz, whose work focused in part on anaplastic astrocytomas, the cancer tissue found in my teenage brain.
If you survived anaplastic astrocytoma, then you are the outcome of a miracle of biblical proportion.
People with anaplastic astrocytomas do not survive long — certainly not 35 years.
I felt compelled to reach out because it is simply so unusual that you survived anaplastic astrocytoma.
That’s when she said the tumor was an anaplastic astrocytoma, and that the survival rate for this cell type and grade was low.