| homunculus | 1. An exceedingly minute body which, according to the views of development held by medical scientists of the 16th and 17th centuries, was contained in a sex cell. From this preformed but infinitely small structure the human body was supposed to be developed. See: preformation theory, animalcule. 2. The figure of a human sometimes superimposed on pictures of the surface of the brain to represent the motor or sensory regions of the body represented there. Origin: L. Dim. Of homo, man (05 Mar 2000) |
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manikin: a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal a tiny fully formed individual that (according to the discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present in the sperm cell
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An imaginary "little person" within the brain who was thought to perceive objects and events and to make decisions. Sometimes a representation of the body on the motor or somatosensory cortex.
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the map of the body surface on the somatosensory cortex.
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the little man or son of the king artificially made from stone and semen in the furnace.
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| homunculus | a tiny fully formed individual that (according to the discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present in the sperm cell |
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| homunculus | a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal |
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