Heterologous

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  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Not corresponding or similar in position, value, structure, or function; not homologous.
  • adjective. Relating to traits, such as organs or body parts, that do not correspond in structure or evolutionary origin.
  • adjective. Derived from a different species.
  • adjective. Relating to chromosomes that do not normally pair during mitosis or meiosis.
  • adjective. Relating to cells or tissues that do not usually occur in a given part of the body.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Relating to a vaccine or serum that confers immunity against a pathogen that is not identical to but is immunologically related to the pathogen used to create the vaccine or serum.
  • adjective. Relating to an antigen and antibody that do not correspond to one another.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In researches in immunity, originating, as cells or serum, from an animal of a species different from the one undergoing immunization: thus, in immunizing a rabbit with the red blood-corpuscles of a goat, the latter are of heterologous origin.
  • Containing or consisting of different elements or combinations; not homologous.
  • Specifically In medicine, consisting of a tissue not normally found in that place at that period of life: as, a heterologous tumor.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Characterized by heterology; consisting of different elements, or of like elements in different proportions; different; -- opposed to homologous.
  • adjective. See under Stimulus.
  • adjective. a tumor differing in structure from the normal tissues of the body.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Having different relationships or different elements
  • adjective. Of, or relating to different species
  • adjective. heterologous blood donation
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. not corresponding in structure or evolutionary origin
  • adjective. derived from organisms of a different but related species
  • Word Usage
    "In a narrower sense of the word heterologous new formations are alone destructive."
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