heterotopic
- a word derived from heterotopia.
Example Sentences
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Hopefully the activity around this heterotopic ossification settles down.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 25, 2020
Alex: "I'm going to do a heterotopic transplant."
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2016
Sixty to seventy per cent of those injuries exhibited heterotopic ossification: the wounds had bone growing in the soft tissue, where it didn’t belong.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 29, 2016
Heterochronic processes are such as arise through the dislocation of the proper phylogenetic order of succession: heterotopic processes in the same way are caused by a wandering of cells from one germ-layer to another.
From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
According to Haeckel, the origin of the generative products in the mesoderm is a heterotopic phenomenon, for he considers that they must have originated phylogenetically in one of the two primary layers, ectoderm or endoderm.
From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
