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allotetraploid (medicine)


allotetraploid -->
alloploid


Relating to a hybrid individual or cell with two or more sets of chromosomes derived from two different ancestral species; depending on the number of multiples of haploid sets, alloploid's are referred to as allodiploids, allotriploids, allotetraploids, allopentaploids, allohexaploids, etc.

See: heterokaryon.

Origin: allo-+ -ploid


Rock shaft (medicine)


rock shaft
<machinery> A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion, as in the valve gear of some steam engines.

Synonym: rocker, rocking shaft, and way shaft.

Origin: Cf. Rock, v. I.

Source: Websters Dictionary