| heterophil haemolysin | A sensitizing antibody that can combine with red blood cells of various species (in addition to those used as the antigen in stimulating the formation of the haemolysin), resulting in haemolysis when the proper amount of complement is present. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| heterophile antibody | <immunology> An antibody raised against an antigen from one species that also reacts against antigens from other species. Also used of Forssman type systems where antibody against antigens from a variety of species is present without immunisation. (18 Nov 1997) |
| heterophile antigen | An antigen or antigenic determinant which is found in different tissues in more than one species. (05 Mar 2000) |
| heterophonia | 1. The change of voice at puberty. 2. Any abnormality in the voice sounds. Synonym: heterophthongia. Origin: hetero-+ G. Phone, voice (05 Mar 2000) |
| heterophony | <medicine> An abnormal state of the voice. Origin: Hetero- + Gr. Voice. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| heterophoria | A tendency for deviation of the eyes from parallelism, prevented by binocular vision. Origin: hetero-+ G. Phora, movement (05 Mar 2000) |
| heterophthalmus | A seldom-used term for a difference in the appearance of the two eyes, usually due to heterochromia iridis. Synonym: allophthalmia. Origin: hetero-+ G. Ophthalmos, eye (05 Mar 2000) |
| heterophthongia | Synonym: heterophonia. Origin: G. Heterophthongos, fr. Heteros, different, + phthongos, sound, voice (05 Mar 2000) |
| Heterophyes | A genus of digenetic flukes (family Heterophyidae) parasitic in fish-eating birds and mammals, including man; cercariae from infected snails penetrate and encyst in fish, which are eaten by the final hosts. Origin: hetero-+ G. Phye, stature, form Heterophyes brevicaeca, a species reported from man in the Philippines and implicated in heart lesions caused by the eggs of this minute fluke, carried from the intestinal mucosa to obstruct coronary capillaries. Heterophyes heterophyes, the Egyptian intestinal or small intestinal fluke, a species infecting the small intestine and caecum in man and other fish-eating mammals in Egypt and the Far East. Heterophyes katsuradai, a species, somewhat smaller than Heterophyes heterophyes, found in Japan. (05 Mar 2000) |
| heterophyiasis | Infection with a heterophyid trematode, particularly Heterophyes heterophyes. Synonym: heterophyidiasis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| heterophyid | Common name for a member of the family Heterophyidae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| heterophyidae | A family of intestinal flukes of the class trematoda which occurs in animals and man. Some of the genera are heterophyes, metagonimus, cryptocotyle, stellantchasmus, and euryhelmis. (12 Dec 1998) |
| heterophyidiasis | Infection with a heterophyid trematode, particularly Heterophyes heterophyes. Synonym: heterophyidiasis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| heterophyllous | <botany> The presence on a single individual of two or more distinct leaf shapes. These leaves may differ markedly in shape, yet have similar gross anatomical organisation. (09 Oct 1997) |
| heteroplasia | 1. Development of cytologic and histologic elements that are not normal for the organ or part in question, as the growth of bone in a site where there is normally fibrous connective tissue. 2. Malposition of tissue or a part that is otherwise normal, as a ureter that develops at the lower pole of a kidney. Synonym: alloplasia. Origin: hetero-+ G. Plasis, a forming. (05 Mar 2000) |
| heterozygosity |
A measure of the genetic variation in a population; with respect to one locus, stated as the frequency of heterozygotes for that locus.
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| heterothallic |
A botanical term used for organisms in which the two sexes reside in different individuals.
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| heteroplasmy |
The existence within an organism of genetic heterogeneity within the populations of mitochondria or chloroplasts.
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| heterotroph |
Organism requiring an organic form of carbon as a carbon source.
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| heterozygote |
The person only carries one copy of a defective RECESSIVE gene.
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