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Etymology

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From neo- +‎ -plasty. See neoplasia.

Noun

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neoplasty (plural neoplasties)

  1. (medicine, surgery, obsolete) Restoration of a part by granulation, adhesive inflammation, or autoplasty.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for neoplasty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)