Medical Term:
disomy
Pronunciation: dī′sō-mē
Definition:
- The state of an individual or cell having two members of a pair of homologous chromosomes; the normal state in humans, in contrast to monosomy and trisomy.
- An abnormal chromosome represented twice in a single cell.
[G. dis, two, + sōma, body]
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