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Definition of Heterogenous
1. Adjective. Consisting of elements that are not of the same kind or nature. "The population of the United States is vast and heterogeneous"
Also: Diversified, Different, Varied
Similar to: Assorted, Miscellaneous, Mixed, Motley, Sundry, Disparate, Inhomogeneous, Nonuniform
Derivative terms: Heterogeneity, Heterogeneousness
Antonyms: Homogeneous
2. Adjective. Originating outside the body.
Definition of Heterogenous
1. a. Of or pertaining to heterogenesis; heterogenetic.
Definition of Heterogenous
1. Adjective. (genetics) derived from a different individual or species ¹
2. Adjective. (alternative spelling of heterogeneous) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Heterogenous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Heterogenous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Heterogenous
Literary usage of Heterogenous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Baltimore: Its History and Its People by Clayton Colman Hall, Lewis Historical Publishing Co (1912)
"... men who are helping to exploit our natural resources, to the European the most
distinctively typical of our heterogenous population. ..."
2. American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and ...by William Nicholson by William Nicholson (1819)
"... which determine the order of their arrangement: living bodies, on the contrary,
consist of numerous fibres or laminae, of heterogenous composition, ..."
3. Sporting Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02751662] (1822)
"It is, therefore, in the indiscreet attempt to change these primitive species,
by monstrous unions of horses of dissimilar habits, and by heterogenous ..."
4. Special pathology and therapeutics of the diseases of domestic animals v. 2 by Ferenc Hutyra (1913)
"It may indeed happen that the organism, being under the influence of some
proteid (usually infectious substances) becomes intolerant to other heterogenous ..."
5. Principles of Surgery by Worcester Allen Bryan (1913)
"Vaccines may be either autogenous or heterogenous; the former term signifies that
the vaccine is made from a culture derived from the infection which is to ..."
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