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Heterologous

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Derived from a different species: a heterologous graft.

adj. Of or relating to cytologic or histological elements not normally occurring in a designated part of the body.

adj. Immunologically related but not identical. Used of certain cells and antiserums.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Having different relationships or different elements

adj. Of, or relating to different species

adj. heterologous blood donation

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Characterized by heterology; consisting of different elements, or of like elements in different proportions; different; -- opposed to homologous.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Containing or consisting of different elements or combinations; not homologous.

Specifically In medicine, consisting of a tissue not normally found in that place at that period of life: as, a heterologous tumor.

In researches in immunity, originating, as cells or serum, from an animal of a species different from the one undergoing immunization: thus, in immunizing a rabbit with the red blood-corpuscles of a goat, the latter are of heterologous origin.

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adj. not corresponding in structure or evolutionary origin

adj. derived from organisms of a different but related species

Word Usage

"In a narrower sense of the word heterologous new formations are alone destructive."

Antonym

autologous homologous

Cross Reference

heterologous determinant

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

different

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