Associations to the word «Mosaicism»

Wiktionary

MOSAICISM, noun. (genetics) the condition in which more than one genetically distinct population of cells coexist within one individual

Dictionary definition

MOSAICISM, noun. The condition in which an organism has two or more cell populations that differ in genetic makeup.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky