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heterology

[het-uh-rol-uh-jee]

noun

  1. Biology.the lack of correspondence of apparently similar organic structures as the result of unlike origins of constituent parts.

  2. Pathology.abnormality; structural difference from a type or normal standard.



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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of heterology1

First recorded in 1850–55; hetero- + -logy
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Heterology, het-er-ol′oj-i, n. abnormality, want of true morphological affinity.—adj.

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