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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In physiology, the production or development of a new individual by the separation of a part of the parent; gemmation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physiol.) The process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respects like the individual from which it proceeds.
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- noun physiology The process of generation by development of
blastema , orfission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect like the individual from which it proceeds.
Etymologies
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See accresce, increment
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