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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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