Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or characterized by heteroplasia.
- Dissimilar in structure, as different tissues of the body. Thus, nerve-tissue, muscle-tissue, and bone-tissue are heteroplastic with reference one to another.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Biol.) Producing a different type of organism; developing into a different form of tissue, as cartilage which develops into bone.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective pathology Of, or relating to
heteroplasm - adjective surgery Of a
graft betweenindividuals ofdifferent species - adjective botany Of
cells possessingplastids from two or moreparent cells or organisms.
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Examples
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And in heteroplastic transplantation these diverge somewhat from those of the host.
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Because the implant in this "heteroplastic" transplantation remains distinguishable for a fairly long time it is possible to test the interchangeability of those parts of the embryo which develop inwards during gastrulation.
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In heteroplastic transplantations the results were different.
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If the transplanted segment is from the same animal, or from another animal of the same kind, or from a different kind of animal, the transplantations are autoplastic, homoplastic or heteroplastic respectively.
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As said earlier the induction effect is also possible with heteroplastic transplantation, i.e. between embryos of different species.
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