homeoplastic

English

Alternative forms

• homoeoplastic
• homœoplastic

Etymology

From homeo- +‎ plastic.

Adjective

homeoplastic (not comparable)

1. (pathology) Resembling the tissue from or in which the thing to which the term is applied is formed.

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “homeoplastic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.