mosaicism

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15
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18
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9

Definition of mosaicism

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The condition in which more than one genetically distinct population of cells coexist within one individual.
    “Some but not all of the cells that made up the fetus […] had an extra chromosome on the twentieth pair. A mosaicism, it was called.”

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Etymology

From mosaic + -ism.

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