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mozaicism

mozaicism is the misspelling 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 mozaicism

What is mozaicism the misspelling of?
Mozaicism is the misspelling of mosaicism.

Words near mozaicism in the dictionary

  1. Moz
  2. Moz.
  3. moza
  4. Mozabite
  5. Mozabites
  6. mozaicism
  7. Mozak
  8. Mozam.
  9. Mozambican
  10. Mozambicanness
  11. Mozambicans

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