Words that rhyme with kataplasia

  • acacia
    n 1: any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia
  • aphasia
    n 1: inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion
  • dysphasia
    n 1: an impairment of language (especially speech production) that is usually due to brain damage
  • euthanasia
    n 1: the act of killing someone painlessly (especially someone suffering from an incurable illness) [syn: euthanasia, mercy killing]
  • fantasia
    n 1: a musical composition of a free form usually incorporating several familiar themes
  • asia
    n 1: the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations 2: the nations of the Asian continent collectively
  • dysplasia
    n 1: abnormal development (of organs or cells) or an abnormal structure resulting from such growth
  • eurasia
    n 1: the land mass formed by the continents of Europe and Asia
  • malaysia
    n 1: a constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1957 [syn: Malaysia, Malaya]
  • australasia
    n 1: Australia, New Zealand, and neighboring islands in the South Pacific
  • hyperplasia
    n 1: abnormal increase in number of cells
  • aplasia
    n 1: failure of some tissue or organ to develop
  • dyscrasia
    n 1: an abnormal or physiologically unbalanced state of the body
  • laurasia
    n 1: a hypothetical continent that (according to plate tectonic theory) broke up later into North America and Europe and Asia
  • cataphasia
    n 1: a speech disorder in which the same word is repeated several times in succession
  • cataplasia
    n 1: (biology) degenerative reversion of cells or tissue to a less differentiated or more primitive form
  • haemostasia
    n 1: surgical procedure of stopping the flow of blood (as with a hemostat) [syn: hemostasis, haemostasis, hemostasia, haemostasia]
  • hemostasia
    n 1: surgical procedure of stopping the flow of blood (as with a hemostat) [syn: hemostasis, haemostasis, hemostasia, haemostasia]
  • hypoplasia
    n 1: underdevelopment of an organ because of a decrease in the number of cells
  • keratectasia
    n 1: abnormal bulging of the cornea of the eye
  • appalachia
    n 1: an impoverished coal mining area in the Appalachian Mountains (from Pennsylvania to North Carolina)
  • austrasia
  • anastasia
  • athanasia
  • endophasia
  • exophasia
  • fibroplasia
  • gastrectasia
  • hemerasia
  • metaplasia
  • homeoplasia