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mosaicisms

mosaicisms is the plural of mosaicism.

Meaning of mosaicism

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

Questions about mosaicisms

What is mosaicisms the plural of?
Mosaicisms is the plural of mosaicism.

Words near mosaicisms in the dictionary

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

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