homœoplastic

A form of homeoplastic — Resembling the tissue from or in which the thing to which the term is applied is formed.

Meanings

adjectivehomœoplastic (not comparable)
  1. not comparableobsoleteObsolete form of homeoplastic.
    1 more example

    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.’

    1884, Henry Thompson, Lectures on some Important Points Connected with the Surgery of the Urinary Organs, page 57
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