homunculus

• To create a homunculus is a mediaeval idea; to bring it in line with the present century, this creation must be undertaken on the principle of mass production. —  F ;SF; - vol 104 issue 01 - January 2003
• Kazuki is killed while fighting a homunculus, a malevolent creature that feeds on humans. —  ComicList Headlines
• It also allows considerations of systems biology [i.e. integral (gestalt) pharmacology] exemplified by the drug homunculus, as in the case of vitamin D, that might lead to new paradigms and drug design. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
• Not to mention that they validate your age by asking you questions about movies and rock bands from the 70s. homunculus: Will Wright's eight-year, multimillion dollar project Spore encompasses almost every aspect of science, from star formation to biological evolution. —  MetaFilter Projects
• Salmasius seems also to have entertained this idea, though his spies in England gave him wrong information; or, possibly, he only drew the figure of his own distempered imagination Salmasius sometimes reproaches Milton as being but a puny piece of man; an homunculus, a dwarf deprived of the human figure, a bloodless being, composed of nothing but skin and bone; a contemptible pedagogue, fit only to flog his boys: and, rising into a poetic frenzy, applies to him the words of Virgil, "_Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum_." —  Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)

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