----- Original Message ----- From: "Alberto Monteiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 9:20 AM Subject: Re: The incredible disappearing twin
> 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 :-/ > That's what we do to pedants. <G> xponent Appropriate Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
