homodynamy

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek [Term?] (“of like power; the same + power”).

Noun

homodynamy (countable and uncountable, plural homodynamies)

  1. (biology) The homology of metameres.
    • 1878, Carl Gegenbaur, Elements of comparative anatomy:
      2 ) Homodynamy (equivalent to the general homology of Owen, and partly also to his serial homology) subsists between parts of the body which are affected by a general morphological phaenomenon serially expressed in the organism.

References

homodynamy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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