See Also: balaam(medicine)
Balaam(dictionary)

paedomorphosis (iou) and balaam (medicine)


paedomorphosis (iou)



paedomorphosis noun. Also *pedomorphosis. E20.
[from PAEDO- + MORPHOSIS.]
Biology. The retention of juvenile characteristics of an ancestral form in the more mature forms of its descendants.

balaam (medicine)


balaam


A paragraph describing something wonderful, used to fill out a newspaper column; an allusion to the miracle of Balaam's ass speaking. Balaam basket or box, the receptacle for rejected articles.

Source: Websters Dictionary