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Refers to an organ or part (for example, the human appendix) which is greatly reduced from the original ancestral form and is no longer functional.
(09 Oct 1997)
vestige, vestige of processus vaginalis, vestige of vaginal process < Prev | Next > vestigial fold, vestigial muscle, vestigial organ
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