heterotypic

[het-er-uh-tip-ik]

adjective Cell Biology.

of or relating to the first or reductional division in meiosis.

Also het·er·o·typ·i·cal.

Compare homeotypic.

Origin of heterotypic

First recorded in 1885–90; hetero- + type + -ic

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for heterotypic

Historical Examples of heterotypic

The heterotypic maturation mitosis in Amphibia and its general significance.
Studies in Spermatogenesis
Nettie Maria Stevens
In 1887 W. Flemming termed this the heterotypic form of nuclear division.
Darwin and Modern Science
A.C. Seward and Others

British Dictionary definitions for heterotypic

heterotypic

heterotypical

adjective

denoting or relating to the first nuclear division of meiosis, in which the chromosome number is halvedCompare homeotypic

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

heterotypic in Medicine

heterotypic

[hĕt′ə-rō-tĭp′ĭk]

adj.

Of a different or unusual type or form.