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Definition: Homologous |
HomologousAdjective1. (biology) having the same evolutionary origin but serving different functions; "the wing of a bat and the arm of a man are homologous". 2. Corresponding or similar in position or structure or function or characteristics; especially derived from an organism of the same species; "a homologous tissue graft". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "homologous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1870. (references) |
Etymology: Homologous \Ho*mol"o*gous\, adjective. [Greek expression assenting, agreeing; the same speech, discourse, proportion, to say, speak.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Health | Corresponding in structure, position, origin, etc., as (a) the feathers of a bird and the scales of a fish, (b) antigen and its specific antibody, (c) allelic chromosomes. (references) |
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| Antonyms: analogous (adj), autologous (adj), heterologous (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Equality | Equivalent, tantamount; indistinguishable; quits; homologous; synonymous; resolvable into, convertible, much at one, as broad as long, neither more nor less.; much the same as, the same thing as, as good as; all one, all the same; equipollent, equiponderant, equiponderous, equibalanced; equalized; Verb: drawn; half and half; isochronal, isochronous isoperimetric, isoperimetrical; isobath, isobathic. |
Uniformity | Adjective: uniform; homogeneous, homologous;of a piece, consistent, connatural; monotonous, even, invariable; regular, unchanged, undeviating, unvaried, unvarying. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Health | A variety of alternatives to homologous transfusions exist. (references) | |
Immunologic consequences also complicate homologous red cell transfusion. (references) | ||
Therefore, the number of homologous transfusions should be kept to a minimum. (references) | ||
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| "Homologous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.43% of the time. "Homologous" is used about 174 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.43% | 173 | 23,656 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.57% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 174 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "homologous": homologous chromosomes ♦ homologous graft ♦ Homologous stimuli ♦ Homologous stimulus. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "homologous": non-homologous. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
homologous structure | 22 |
homologous recombination | 11 |
homologous | 9 |
chromosomes homologous | 9 |
analogous homologous structure | 4 |
homologous series | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "homologous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | homolog (counterpart), korrespondues (commensurable, corresponding, parallel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | متماثل (akin, corresponding, equal, homogeneous, identification, matching, parallel, symmetric, symmetrical, uniform), متشاكل (uniform). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съответен (adequate, analogous, appropriate, congruent, congruous, consentaneous, correspondent, corresponding, opposite, parallel, proper, reciprocal, relevant, respective, several), хомологичен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 同源 (homology). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | souhlasný (approving, concordant, consistent, sympathetic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | homolog (of same essential nature). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | homoloog. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | homologinen sekvenssi (homologous sequence), homologinen proteiini (homologous protein), homologinen kloonaus (homologous cloning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | homologue (homologue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | homolog (homogenous), gleichwertig (coordinate, equal, equivalent, homogeneous, of the same value). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ομόλογοσ, ομόλογος (counterpart). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | azonos jellegû (homo-). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | omologo (corresponding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | coreggyragh (co-respondent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | omologoushay homlogo, homólogo (counter part, opposite colleague, opposite number), homólogo. (various references) omolog. (various references) гомологический. (various references) odgovarajući (agreeable, compatible, consonant, convenient, corresponding, matching, respondent). (various references) homólogo (counterpart). (various references) homologt protein (homologous protein), homologa kromosomer (homologous chromosomes), homolog tumör (homologous tumor, homotypic tumor), homolog kloning (homologous cloning). (various references) homolog, türdeş (congener, congenerous, fellow creature, homogeneous, of that ilk, of the same kind, solid), benzer (alike, analogic, analogical, analogous, analogue, approximate, closely, conformable, congener, congenerous, connate, correlative, counterpart, double, homeo-, homo-, homoeo-, image, in common, indistinguishable, kindred, like, look alike, match, of a piece, parallel, same, similar, simulant, stand in, vicinal). (various references) гомологічний, відповідний (accordant, adequate, agreeable, answerable, applicable, apposite, appropriate, coincident, coincidental, commensurate, concordant, conformable, congruent, congruous, consistent, correspondent, corresponding, fit, mutual, pertinent, proper, relational, relative, respective, suitable, worthy). (various references) tương đ"ng (homological). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "homologous": nonhomologous. (additional references) | |
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"Homologous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: homolgous, homoligous, homologus, homolygous, horologium. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "homologous" (pronounced humÄ"lugus) |
| 5 | -l u g u s | analogous. |
| 4 | -u g u s | asparagus, esophagus, sarcophagus. |
| 3 | -g u s | Argus, bodegas, bogus, Degas, dingus, fungus, heterozygous, homozygous, humongous, Negus. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-h-l-m-o-o-o-o-s-u" | |
-2 letters: homologs. | |
-3 letters: homolog. | |
-4 letters: ghouls, glomus, glooms, golosh, loughs, moguls, sholom, slough. | |
-5 letters: ghoul, gloms, gloom, holms, homos, logos, looms, lough, mogul, mools, osmol, shool, solum, sough. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-h-l-m-o-o-o-o-s-u" | |
+3 letters: nonhomologous. | |
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