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homunculus::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | manikin, mannikin |
| Type of | small person |
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For the primary somatosensory cortex, this is called the sensory homunculus.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Yes, the Penfield map or homunculus is a well accepted part of current neuroscience.
From the guardian.co.uk
Interestingly, Tamara looks much better when she isn't Palm's ghoulish Pre homunculus.
From the techcrunch.com
He used Paracelsus's notes to create a homunculus, made to look in the form of his sister.
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Until recently, the position of female genitalia on the homunculus had only been guessed at.
From the newscientist.com
Microsoft, though a titan in personal-computer software, is a homunculus in mobile devices.
From the economist.com
Another argument against cognitivism is the problems of Ryle's Regress or the homunculus fallacy.
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The famous alchemist Paracelsus claimed to be able to create a homunculus, an artificial human.
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Like other sensory areas, there is a map of sensory space called a homunculus at this location.
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- Manikin: a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal
- A tiny fully formed individual that (according to the discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present in the sperm cell
- Homunculus (Latin for "little human", plural: "homunculi"; from the diminutive of homo) is a term used, generally, in various fields of study to refer to any representation of a human being. ...
- The Fullmetal Alchemist anime and manga series feature a large number of fictional characters created by Hiromu Arakawa. The story is set in a fictional universe within the 20th Century in which alchemy is one of the most advanced scientific techniques known to man. ...
- Homunculus is a comic science fiction novel by author James P. Blaylock. It was published in 1986. It was the second book in Blaylock's loose Steampunk trilogy, following The Digging Leviathan (1984) and preceding Lord Kelvin's Machine (1992). ...
- In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the homunculus is a construct.
- Homunculus patagonicus is an extinct New World monkey species that lived in Argentina during the Miocene. It is likely the ancestral species for the Callicebinae subfamily, whose living members are the titi monkeys.
- Is a Japanese manga by Hideo Yamamoto, intended for the seinen audience. It is serialized in the magazine Big Comic Spirits.
- The Homunculus is a fantasy novel by author David H. Keller, M.D.. It was first published in 1949 by Prime Press in an edition of 2,112 copies of which 112 were slipcased and signed by the author.
