Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or exhibiting homoplasy.
- adjective Of, relating to, or derived from a different individual of the same species.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In biology and botany, molded alike, or constructed in the same manner, but not having the same origin; analogical or adaptive, and not homological, in structure; homomorphous in texture: distinguished from
homogenous or homogenetic. Alsohomoplasmic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to homoplasty
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, or relating to
homoplasy . - adjective Of, or relating to the
transplantation oftissue between individuals of the samespecies .
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Examples
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If the transplanted segment is from the same animal, or from another animal of the same kind, or from a different kind of animal, the transplantations are autoplastic, homoplastic or heteroplastic respectively.
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In the homoplastic transplantations the clinical evolution showed the same results, but all the muscular fibres disappeared more or less rapidly.
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After that I endeavoured to ascertain to what extent the organs fulfilled their functions, according as the transplantations were autoplastic or homoplastic.
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I have performed many venous transplantations, both autoplastic and homoplastic.
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In homoplastic transplantations the appearance of the vessel also remained normal.
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Autoplastic and homoplastic transplantations of arteries and veins may, therefore, be adopted in surgical practice for those cases in which it is necessary to reestablish the continuity of an artery.
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We also succeeded in performing the first homoplastic transplantation of the kidney, which consisted in grafting both kidneys of one dog "en masse" on to another dog.
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These can be divided into two classes - autoplastic transplantations and homoplastic transplantations.
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Serial homologues so formed might be called, as Mr. Ray Lankester has proposed, "homoplastic."
On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart
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He proposes to call the structures which resemble each other in distinct animals, owing to their descent from a common progenitor with subsequent modification, homogenous; and the resemblances which cannot thus be accounted for, he proposes to call homoplastic.
XIV. Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings: Morphology-Embryology-Rudimentary Organs. Morphology 1909
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