SINCE 1828
heterology
noun
het·er·ol·o·gy
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plural heterologies
Medical Definition of heterology
: a lack of correspondence of apparently similar bodily parts due to differences in fundamental makeup or origin heterology in nucleic-acid base pairs in phenotypically similar yeasts
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