Allotypy

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The occurrence of multiple allotypes within a single individual. countable, uncountable

    "Other allotypies have been found in 1961 by Benaceraff and Gell [32] in guinea-pigs, likewise in 1961 by Kelus and Moor-Jankowski in mice [219] and in baboons [220], in 1963 by Greuter and Butler [159] in Rhesus monkeys, ..."

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"Other allotypies have been found in 1961 by Benaceraff and Gell [32] in guinea-pigs, likewise in 1961 by Kelus and Moor-Jankowski in mice [219] and in baboons [220], in 1963 by Greuter and Butler [159] in Rhesus monkeys, ..."

Etymology

From allotype + -y.

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