Homunculus

Noun

Definitions

1.Nounhomunculus (a legendary figure resembling a little man, who was said to be created through alchemy)

2.Nounhomunculus (the little man believed by preformationists to be inside human sperm)

3.Nounhomunculus (nerve map realized as a distorted representation of the human body)

"homunculus corticale; homunculus motorio"

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