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tetrasomic

tetrasomic adjective: having four copies of a particular chromosome.

Adjective

tetrasomic (not comparable)

  1. Having four copies of a particular chromosome
  2. Having four sex chromosomes
    • Sex chromosome abnormalities occur in at least 1 in 400 births and include the well-described 47,XXX, 47,XXY, 47,XYY, and 45,X karyotypes. The addition of more than one extra X or Y chromosome occurs rarely, and little information is available in the medical literature. Individual case reports make...2026 October 4, Linden, Mary G; Bender, Bruce G; Robinson, Arthur, “Sex chromosome tetrasomy and pentasomy”, in Pediatrics, volume 96, number 4, →DOI, pages 672-682

Noun

tetrasomic (plural tetrasomics)

  1. Such a cell or organism

tetrasomic meaning in Tamil

tetrasomic in Tamil

நான்மடியமூர்த்தத்துக்குரிய

Forms of tetrasomic

pluraltetrasomics

Words formed from tetrasomic

Questions about tetrasomic

What does tetrasomic mean?
Tetrasomic means having four copies of a particular chromosome.
What is tetrasomic in Tamil?
Tetrasomic in Tamil is நான்மடியமூர்த்தத்துக்குரிய. See Tetrasomic meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is tetrasomic?
Tetrasomic can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near tetrasomic in the dictionary

  1. tetraskelions
  2. tetrasodium
  3. tetrasomal
  4. tetrasome
  5. tetrasomes
  6. tetrasomic
  7. tetrasomics
  8. tetrasomies
  9. tetrasomy
  10. tetraspace
  11. tetraspan

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