Definition of recapitulation
1 : a concise summary
2 : the hypothetical occurrence in an individual organism's development of successive stages resembling the series of ancestral types from which it has descended so that the ontogeny of the individual retraces the phylogeny of its group
3 : the third section of a sonata form
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will begin his presentation with a recapitulation of the research done on the disease up to this point
14th Century
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recapitulation
playMedical Definition of recapitulation
: the supposed repetition in the development of the individual of its phylogenetic history—see recapitulation theory
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