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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope