| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| morphallaxis |
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| SYLLABICATION: | mor·phal·lax·is |
| PRONUNCIATION: | môr f -l k s s |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. mor·phal·lax·es (-l k s z) The regeneration of a body part by means of structural or cellular reorganization with only limited production of new cells, observed primarily in invertebrate organisms, such as certain lobsters. | | ETYMOLOGY: | New Latin : morph(o) + Greek allaxis, exchange (from allassein, to exchange, from allos, other; see al-1 in Appendix I).
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