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prepotency (medicine)


prepotency


1. The quality or condition of being prepotent; predominance.

2. <biology> The capacity, on the part of one of the parents, as compared with the other, to transmit more than his or her own share of characteristics to their offspring.

Origin: L. Praepotentia: cf. F. Prepotence.

Source: Websters Dictionary