Category: H
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Heterography
Writing different words from those the writer intended.
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Heterogenetic
Relative to heterogenesis.
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Heterogenesis
The production of offspring that have different characteristics in alternate generations, as in the regular alternation of asexual with sexual reproduction. This characteristic is found in some fungi.
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Heterogeneous system
Any system whose components may be separated mechanically.
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Heterodromus
Acting, arranged, or moving in the opposite direction.
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Heterodermic
To a method of skin grafting in which grafts are taken from another person.
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Heterocyclic
To ring compounds that contain one or more elements other than carbon in the ring.
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Heterochronic
Occurring at different or at abnormal times.
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Heterochronia
Denoting an abnormal time for the occurrence of a phenomenon or production of a structure.
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Heterochromia iridis
Different colors of the iris or sector of the iris in the two eyes. It may occur naturally or as a result of previous disease in the lighter-colored eye. Rarely it is associated with Waardenberg syndrome.