Deborah Harrell wrote: > >> 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 > See? This is why I hate dictionaries.
> "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... > No, this is one reason to call dictionaries _evil_. There are two terms with _precise_ meanings. Then, one jerk with a fancy diploma title uses one word instead of the other, a bunch of acolytes repeats this idiot, and then the dictionary maker ackowledges the idiocy and makes it the right word, creating another ambiguity in the language. Evil. Unqualified Evil. Those people should be flogged in public :-/ Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
