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Definition of Homotypes
1. homotype [n] - See also: homotype
Lexicographical Neighbors of Homotypes
Literary usage of Homotypes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1847)
"I propose, therefore, to call the bones so related serially in the same
skeleton 'homotypes,' and to restrict the term ' homologue' to the corresponding ..."
2. On the Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton by Richard Owen (1848)
"He is not so happy in his particular as in his general determinations : his choice
in the leg, for example, of the homotypes of the radius and ulna in the ..."
3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1903)
"To find the correlation p of the homologous pairs as if they were simple homotypes.
(ii.) To find the correlation r between the growth periods of each pair ..."
4. Report by British Association for the Advancement of Science (1847)
"choice in the leg, for example, of the homotypes of the radius and ulna in the
fore-arm, is erroneous ; but the whole memoir is an admirable example of the ..."
5. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"... the basi - occipital, basi - sphenoid, pre- sphenoid, and vomer are the
homotypes of the vertebral bodies; the coracoid, superior maxillary, clavicle, ..."
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