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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A collective term for the theories that assume that living protoplasm is made up of a great number of excessively minute units, or biomolecules, each endowed with the peculiar properties of living substance, namely, assimilation, growth, and reproduction.
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"memory" of some particular organ or feature of the body, and lo! we find ourselves back again in micromerism.
Science and Morals and Other Essays Bertram Coghill Alan Windle 1893
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