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mosaicism

mosaicism noun: the condition in which more than one genetically distinct population of cells coexist within one individual.

Noun

mosaicism (countable and uncountable, plural mosaicisms)

  1. The condition in which more than one genetically distinct population of cells coexist within one individual.
    • Some but not all of the cells that made up the fetus […] had an extra chromosome on the twentieth pair. A mosaicism, it was called.2007, Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, 4th Estate (2010), page 14

Forms of mosaicism

pluralmosaicisms

Origin of mosaicism

From mosaic + -ism.

Questions about mosaicism

What does mosaicism mean?
Mosaicism means the condition in which more than one genetically distinct population of cells coexist within one individual.
What part of speech is mosaicism?
Mosaicism is a noun.
What is the plural of mosaicism?
The plural of mosaicism is mosaicisms.

Words near mosaicism in the dictionary

  1. Mosaical rod
  2. Mosaical rods
  3. mosaically
  4. mosaiced
  5. mosaicing
  6. mosaicism
  7. mosaicisms
  8. mosaicist
  9. mosaicists
  10. mosaicities
  11. mosaicity

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