mosaicism

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mosaicism

noun mosaicisms

countable, uncountable The condition in which more than one genetically distinct population of cells coexist within one individual. Some but not all of the cells that made up the fetus […] had an extra chromosome on the twentieth pair. A mosaicism, it was called.

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noun condition

中文	鑲嵌現象 /镶嵌现象 xiāngqiàn xiànxiàng, 嵌合現象 /嵌合现象 qiànhé xiànxiàng, 嵌合性 qiànhéxìng

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@misc{mosaicism_2026,
  title = {mosaicism},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mosaicism},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}