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When F. nucleatum was introduced directly into breast ducts, it caused metaplastic and hyperplastic lesions, noncancerous changes where cells either grow excessively or shift into a different type.

From Science Daily • Mar. 19, 2026

This receptor also appears to mediate the hyperplastic states when a brain is changing quickly.

From Salon • Oct. 6, 2023

The letter noted that Oz has a total cholesterol that is “borderline elevated” but unchanged and referenced a hyperplastic lesion — cell growths that could become cancerous — removed from his colon in 2011.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2022

She had chronic hyperplastic pulpitis, a rare inflammatory condition that triggers pulp tissue to irreversibly expand above the walls of the enamel shell.

From Slate • Aug. 28, 2017

The main arteries are narrowed by hyperplastic endarteritis followed by thrombosis, and similar changes are found in the veins.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis