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homœoplastic

homœoplastic

See also: homoeoplastic

English

Adjective

homœoplastic (not comparable)

  1. Obsolete form of homeoplastic.
    • 1884, Henry Thompson, Lectures on some Important Points Connected with the Surgery of the Urinary Organs, page 57:
      A third product, more or less resembling the latter in its fibrous constituents, but exhibiting the presence of cells, doubtful in character, sometimes perhaps due merely to inflammatory action, while it excites suspicion as to its tendency, cannot be altogether removed from the homœoplastic group, and, as before said, is provisionally termed ‘transitional.’