preformation

/.pri:fɒ:'meiʃәn/

中文翻译

n. 预先形成

[医] 先成说, 预成说

英文解释

n. a theory (popular in the 18th century and now discredited) that an individual develops by simple enlargement of a tiny fully formed organism (a homunculus) that exists in the germ cell

常见例句

n a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal n a tiny fully formed individual that (according to the discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present in the sperm cell

a tiny fully formed individual that (according to the discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present in the sperm cell

plural of preformationist