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Definition of Homologous

1. Adjective. Having the same evolutionary origin but not necessarily the same function. "The wing of a bat and the arm of a man are homologous"

2. Adjective. Corresponding or similar in position or structure or function or characteristics; especially derived from an organism of the same species. "A homologous tissue graft"

Definition of Homologous

1. a. Having the same relative position, proportion, value, or structure.

Definition of Homologous

1. Adjective. Showing a degree of correspondence or similarity. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Homologous

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Homologous

1. Corresponding in structure, position, origin, etc., such as the feathers of a bird and the scales of a fish, the antigen and its specific antibody, the allelic chromosomes. Compare: analogous. Origin: Gr. Homologos = agreeing, correspondent This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Homologous

homologation homologations homologic homological homologically homologies homologinic homologise homologize homologized

homologizer homologizers homologizes homologizing homologon homologous (current term) homologous antigen homologous antiserum homologous chromosome homologous chromosomes

homologous desensitization homologous graft homologous pair homologous pairs homologous proteins homologous recombination homologous series homologous serotype homologous serum jaundice homologous stimulus

Literary usage of Homologous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication by Charles Darwin (1899)
"The Fusion of homologous Parts.—Geoffrey Saint-Hilaire formerly propounded ... This law seems to imply that homologous parts actually attract one another ..."

2. Theoretical Kinematics by Oene Bottema, Bernard Roth (1990)
"Hence the set of lines on which three homologous points of V lie is the curve ... The complete locus of lines through three homologous points consists of F ..."

3. Report (1905)
"In each case the mean coefficient for the non-homologous joints is smaller than that for the homologous. In the case of the Legs I-II and Legs II-III the ..."

4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1877)
"0), and if the velocities of the bodies at homologous points in their ... For brevity in what follows, pressures at homologous places on homologous areas ..."

5. A Text-book of Organic Chemistry by Arnold Frederik Holleman (1920)
"33] homologous SERIES. found In the oldest geological formations, but only in those in which the presence of vegetable and animal remains has been ..."

6. Collected Papers in Physics and Engineering by James Thomson (1912)
"square root of any homologous linear dimension in the different flows: and also (pressures being reckoned from the atmospheric pressure as zero) the ..."

7. Inorganic chemistry by Ira Remsen (1889)
"Homology, homologous Series.—In the above series the first member diners from the second by CH, ; and there is also this same difl'erence between the second ..."

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