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Meaning of mosaicism | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

The condition in which more than one genetically distinct population of cells coexist within one individual.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Suomi mosaikismi
Tiếng Việt thể khảm

Examples

“Some but not all of the cells that made up the fetus […] had an extra chromosome on the twentieth pair. A mosaicism, it was called.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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