Heterology

[,hetә'rɒlәdʒi]

Definition

(noun.) (biology) the lack of correspondence of apparently similar body parts.

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Definition

(n.) The absence of correspondence, or relation, in type of structure; lack of analogy between parts, owing to their being composed of different elements, or of like elements in different proportions; variation in structure from the normal form; -- opposed to homology.

(n.) The connection or relation of bodies which have partial identity of composition, but different characteristics and properties; the relation existing between derivatives of the same substance, or of the analogous members of different series; as, ethane, ethyl alcohol, acetic aldehyde, and acetic acid are in heterology with each other, though each in at the same time a member of a distinct homologous series. Cf. Homology.

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Definition

n. abnormality want of true morphological affinity.—adj. Heterol′ogous.

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