Medical Dictionary
heterology
noun het·er·ol·o·gy \-ˈräl-ə-jē\
plural het·er·ol·o·gies
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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