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mesocardia (medicine) and diploid (iou)


mesocardia (medicine)


mesocardia


1. <embryology> Atypical position of the heart in a central position in the chest, as in early embryonic life.

2. Plural of mesocardium.

Origin: meso-+ G. Kardia, heart


diploid (iou)



diploid noun & adjective. L19.
[from DIPLO- + -OID, (senses A.2, B.) ID noun2.]
A. noun.
Crystallography. A cubic form with twelve pairs of similar quadrilateral faces. L19.
Biology. A diploid cell or organism. E20.
b. adjective. Biology. (Of a cell) containing two homologous sets of chromosomes, one from each parent; (of an individual) composed of diploid cells. E20.
diploid number the number of chromosomes in the body cells of an organism.
di'ploidal adjective (Crystallography) of, pertaining to, or designating a cubic crystal class containing the diploid and the pyritohedron M20.
diploidy noun (Biology) diploid condition E20.