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animalculism en · NOUN

Etymology

Compare French animalculisme. By surface analysis, animalcule + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (archaic, uncountable) A theory seeking to explain certain physiological and pathological phenomena in terms of animalcules.
  2. (archaic, uncountable) The theory that the spermatozoon and not the ovum contains the whole of the embryo; spermism.

Antonyms

ovism

Translations (2)

fr animalculisme (theory that the spermatozoon contains the whole of the embryo) · pt animalculismo (theory that the spermatozoon contains the whole of the embryo)