Heterochromia iridis
A difference in color between the iris of one eye and the iris of the other eye. A person with one brown eye and one blue eye has heterochromia iridis.
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- Heteroclite
Deviating from the ordinary; irregular or abnormal; anomalous. As, for example, retroviruses represent a heteroclite field of virology. From the Greek hetero- (different) + klinein (to lean, inflect).
- Heteroerotic
Having to do with sexual excitement toward the opposite sex. By contrast with alloerotic.
- Heterokaryon
A cell with two separate nuclei formed by the experimental fusion of two genetically different cells. For example, heterokaryons composed of nuclei from Hurler syndrome and Hunter syndrome, both diseases of mucopolysaccharide metabolism, have normal mucopolysaccharide metabolism. This proves that the two syndromes affect different proteins and so can correct each other in the heterokaryon.
- Heteromorphism
Something that is different in form. Chromosome heteromorphisms are normal variations in the appearance of chromosomes.
- Heterophyes
A minute parasite that lives in the small intestine of humans, cats, dogs and other mammals who acquire it by eating raw or uncooked contaminated fish. Heterophyes is one of the smallest trematodes (parasitic flatworms) infecting humans. The main symptoms are diarrhea and abdominal pain. The lining of the small intestine may break down, permitting […]