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Meaning of HETEROTOPISM

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Het`er*ot"o*pism\, Heterotopy \Het`er*ot"o*py\, n.
[Hetero- + Gr. ? place: cf. F. h['e]t['e]rotopie.]
1. (Med.) A deviation from the natural position; -- a term
   applied in the case of organs or growths which are
   abnormal in situation.
2. (Biol.) A deviation from the natural position of parts,
   supposed to be effected in thousands of years, by the
   gradual displacement of germ cells.
 

 

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