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heteromorphosis|ˌhɛtərəʊˈmɔːfəsɪs, ˌhɛtərəʊmɔːˈfəʊsɪs|
[f. hetero- + morphosis; in sense b ad. G. heteromorphose (J. Loeb Untersuchungen z. physiol. Morphologie d. Thiere (1891) I. i. 10), f. Gr. ἕτερο-ς different + µόρϕωσ-ις formation.]
a. Abnormal tissue, or tissue formed at the wrong place; heteroplasia.
1891Foster Med. Dict. III, Heteromorphosis, a malformation. The heteromorphoses..in Fuchs's classification of skin diseases are a genus..including nævus, ochthiasis, polytrichia, and polonychia. 1922Guy's Hosp. Rep. LXXII. 200 Cells differing in structure from those characteristic of the part of the body are produced. Here we have a heteroplasia or heteromorphosis.
b. The regeneration of an organ or structure that is different from the one lost.
1894Jrnl. Morphology IX. 418 To this phenomenon of the reproduction of an organ typically different from the one which had originally occupied that position, he [sc. Jacques Loeb] has given the name heteromorphosis. 1901J. Loeb Compar. Physiol. Brain xiv. 203 The processes of heteromorphosis—that is, the transformation or substitution of one organ for a morphologically different one by means of certain external influences—force us to the same view. 1932J. S. Huxley Probl. Rel. Growth vi. iii. 172 The production of axial heteromorphosis in regeneration, such as biaxial heads or tails, can also be satisfactorily interpreted in terms of the gradient hypothesis. 1940,1966[see homœosis]. |