--- Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The case, encountered in Boston and the subject of > >a report in New > > Scientist magazine this month, has led researchers > >to conclude that the > > woman is a chimera, genetically two individuals in > >a single, otherwise normal, body.
> I thought that the biological term _chimera_ was > exclusively applied > to the mix of cells from different _species_. The > case reported here would be _mosaic_. I thought you were correct, but my Steadman's Medical Dictionary defines _chimera_ in part as "1. In experimental embryology, the individual produced by grafting an embryonic part of one animal on to the embryo of another, either of the same or another species... "4. Sometimes used as a synonym for mosaic." <rolls eyes> One more reason to call Medicine a Practiced Art instead of a Pure Science... I Learn Something Almost Daily Maru :) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
