| heterometabolous metamorphosis | The development of a nymph into the imago which in many respects resembles the former; characteristic of more primitive insect orders, such as Heteroptera (true bugs), Orthoptera (locusts, grasshoppers), and Blatterria (roaches). Synonym: heterometabolous metamorphosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| heterometaplasia | Tissue transformation resulting in production of a tissue foreign to the part where produced. (05 Mar 2000) |
| heterometric | Involving or depending upon a change in size. Origin: hetero-+ G. Metron, measure (05 Mar 2000) |
| heterometropia | A condition in which the refraction is different in the two eyes. Origin: hetero-+ G. Metron, measure, + ops, eye (05 Mar 2000) |
| heteromorphic | <biology> Deviating from the normal, perfect, or mature form; having different forms at different stages of existence, or in different individuals of the same species; applied especially to insects in which there is a wide difference of form between the larva and the adult, and to plants having more than one form of flower. Origin: Hetero- + Gr. Form. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| heteromorphism | <biology> The state or quality of being heteromorphic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| heteromorphosis | 1. Development of one tissue from a tissue of another kind or type. 2. Embryonic development of tissue or an organ inappropriate to its site. Origin: hetero-+ G. Morphosis, a molding (05 Mar 2000) |
| heteromorphous | <biology> Of two or more distinct forms. (09 Oct 1997) |
| heteromorphy | <biology> The state or quality of being heteromorphic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| heteromyaria | <zoology> A division of bivalve shells, including the marine mussels, in which the two adductor muscles are very unequal. See Dreissena, and Illust. Under Byssus. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. Other + a muscle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| heteronereis | <zoology> A free-swimming, dimorphic, sexual form of certain species of Nereis. In this state the head and its appendages are changed in form, the eyes become very large; more or less of the parapodia are highly modified by the development of finlike lobes, and branchial lamellae, and their setae become longer and bladelike. Origin: NL. See Hetero-, and Nereis. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| heteronomous | 1. Different from the type; abnormal. 2. Subject to the direction or control of another; not self-governing. Compare: autonomous. Origin: hetero-+ G. Nomos, law (05 Mar 2000) |
| heteronomous psychotherapy | Term embracing all forms of psychotherapy that foster the patient's dependence on others, especially dependence on the psychotherapist, in contrast to autonomous psychotherapy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| heteronomy | 1. Subordination or subjection to the law of another; political subjection of a community or state; opposed to autonomy. 2. <psychology> A term applied by Kant to those laws which are imposed on us from without, or the violence done to us by our passions, wants, or desires. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| heteronuclear | Denoting a heterokaryon that has lost some of the nuclear material of which the cell line was originally constituted. (05 Mar 2000) |