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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as heterotopy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) A deviation from the natural position; -- a term applied in the case of organs or growths which are abnormal in situation.
  • noun (Biol.) A deviation from the natural position of parts, supposed to be effected in thousands of years, by the gradual displacement of germ cells.

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  • noun biology heterotopy

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