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heteroplasm

noun

Meaning

  1. Tissue growing in a part of the body where it does not normally occur.

Etymology / origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sḿ̥teros Proto-Hellenic *hə́teros Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros)lbor. English hetero- English plasm English heteroplasm From hetero- + plasm.

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