Medical Dictionary

tetrasomic

adj tet·ra·so·mic \ˌte-trə-ˈsō-mik\

Medical Definition of TETRASOMIC

:  having one or a few chromosomes tetraploid in otherwise diploid nuclei due to nondisjunction

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