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trisomic

trisomic adjective: having three copies of a given chromosome in each somatic cell instead of the usual number of two.

Adjective

trisomic (not comparable)

  1. Having three copies of a given chromosome in each somatic cell instead of the usual number of two

Noun

trisomic (plural trisomics)

  1. An organism that exhibits trisomy

Forms of trisomic

pluraltrisomics

Questions about trisomic

What does trisomic mean?
Trisomic means having three copies of a given chromosome in each somatic cell instead of the usual number of two.
What part of speech is trisomic?
Trisomic can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near trisomic in the dictionary

  1. trisoligonucleotide
  2. trisoligonucleotides
  3. trisomal
  4. trisome
  5. trisomes
  6. trisomic
  7. trisomics
  8. trisomies
  9. trisomy
  10. trisomy 18
  11. trisomy 21

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