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recapitulation(medicine)
recapitulation(dictionary)
recapitulation theory(medicine)

recapitulation (iou)



recapitulation noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French recapitulation or late Latin recapitulatio(n-), formed as RECAPITULATE + -ATION.]
a. The action or an act of recapitulating, (a) summing up. LME.
b. Biology. The appearance during (esp. embryonic) development of successive forms resembling those of the organism's evolutionary predecessors. L19.
c. Music. A section of a composition or movement, esp. the final section of one in sonata form, in which themes from the exposition are repeated, usu. in a modified form. L19.
Christian Theology. The summing up and redemption of all human experience in Jesus' life and death. M17.