Associations to the word «Aneuploidy»

Wiktionary

ANEUPLOIDY, noun. (genetics) The condition of being aneuploid; the state of possessing a chromosome number that is not an exact multiple of the haploid number of the organism in question.

Dictionary definition

ANEUPLOIDY, noun. An abnormality involving a chromosome number that is not an exact multiple of the haploid number (one chromosome set is incomplete).

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats