Medical Dictionary
heteronomous
adj het·er·on·o·mous \ˌhet-ə-ˈrän-ə-məs\
Medical Definition of HETERONOMOUS
: specialized along different lines of growth or under different controlling forces <in most segmented animals…the segmentation is heteronomous—Libbie H. Hyman>
—het·er·on·o·mous·ly adverb
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