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heterology (medicine)


heterology


1. <biology> The absence of correspondence, or relation, in type of structure; lack of analogy between parts, owing to their being composed of different elements, or of like elements in different proportions; variation in structure from the normal form; opposed to homology.

2. <chemistry> The connection or relation of bodies which have partial identity of composition, but different characteristics and properties; the relation existing between Derivatives of the same substance, or of the analogous members of different series; as, ethane, ethyl alcohol, acetic aldehyde, and acetic acid are in heterology with each Other, though each in at the same time a member of a distinct homologous series. Cf. Homology.

Origin: Hetero-.

Source: Websters Dictionary


sowlth (iou)



sowlth noun. E19.
[Irish samhailt likeness, apparition.]
A formless luminous spectre.
? Chiefly in the writings of W. B. Yeats.