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palingenesy (medicine)


palingenesy


1. A new birth; a re-creation; a regeneration; a continued existence in different manner or form.

2. <biology> That form of evolution in which the truly ancestral characters conserved by heredity are reproduced in development; original simple descent; distinguished from kenogenesis. Sometimes, in zoology, the abrupt metamorphosis of insects, crustaceans, etc.

See Genesis.

Origin: Gr.; again + birth: cf. F. Palingenesie.