ATAVISM
\ˈate͡ɪvˌɪzəm], \ˈateɪvˌɪzəm], \ˈa_t_eɪ_v_ˌɪ_z_ə_m]\
Definitions of ATAVISM
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The recurrence of any peculiarity or disease of an ancestor in a subsequent generation, after an intermission for a generation or two.
By Oddity Software
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The recurrence of any peculiarity or disease of an ancestor in a subsequent generation, after an intermission for a generation or two.
By Noah Webster.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Reversion, the occurrence of a characteristic of a remote ancestor not observed in the more immediate ancestors.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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The case in which an anomaly or disease, existing in a family, is lost in one generation and reappears in the following.
By Robley Dunglison
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Inheritance of characters from remote ancestors.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The reappearance of one of the primitive types in the descendants of parents of different races.
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That manifestation of ancestral influence which consists in bodily or mental peculiarities inherited from an ancestor more remote than the father and mother; the reappearance of family traits after they have been in abeyance for one or more generations.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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