Definition of "aplastic" []

• Lacking form. (adjective)
• Pathology Unable to form or regenerate tissue. (adjective)
• Pathology Of or characterized by aplasia. (adjective)

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• "Kumamoto University in Japan, who had been collecting urine from people with a disease called aplastic anemia."
• "Tests showed it contained benzene, a chemical believed to cause aplastic anemia and leukemia, in a concentration 1,500 times the level safe for people."
• "And when someone mentions yourname Miami as if you are only aplastic flamingo in someone'syard, or a plastic braless girlon South Beach burning hertits in that sun, the same sunthat burned on my mother's foreheadwhile waited for the bus from FlaglerStreet to North Miami's factoria, yo no se porque nosotrosmi gente lo unico que recordamoses el rojo que dejamosy no el calor que empezamosen el exilio, en Miami."