homoplastic
Britishadjective
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(of a tissue graft) derived from an individual of the same species as the recipient
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another word for analogous
Other Word Forms
- homoplastically adverb
- homoplasty noun
- homoplasy noun
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Homoplastic, hō-mō-plas′tik, adj. analogical or adaptive, and not homological in structure.—ns.
From Project Gutenberg
The chances against these two selected members exhibiting another really independent homoplastic agreement are enormous: let us say 10,000 to 1.
From Project Gutenberg
In other words, the Malpighian tubes of the terrestrial Arachnida are homoplastic with those of Hexapoda and Myriapoda, and not homogenetic with them.
From Project Gutenberg
The segmentation of the prosoma and the form of the appendages bear a homoplastic similarity to the head, pro-, meso-, and meta-thorax of a Hexapod with mandibles, maxillary palps and three pairs of walking legs; while the opisthosoma agrees in form and number of somites with the abdomen of a Hexapod, and the tracheal stigmata present certain agreements in the two cases.
From Project Gutenberg
Whilst the chances are in favour of some one homoplastic coincidence or structural agreement occurring between some member or other of a large group a and some member or other of a large group b, the matter is very different 297 when by such an initial coincidence the two members have been particularized.
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