homunculus

Etymology
Borrowed from, diminutive of.

Noun

 * 1) A miniature man, once imagined by spermists to be present in human sperm.
 * 2) The nerve map of the human body that exists on the parietal lobe of the human brain.

Derived terms

 * homunculus argument
 * homunculus argument

Related terms

 * homunculine
 * homunculine

Translations

 * Catalan: homuncle
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ホムンクルス
 * Latin:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:

Etymology
. Compare the adapted borrowing.

Noun

 * 1)    (a legendary figure resembling a little man, who was said to be created through alchemy)
 * 2)   homunculus (the little man believed by preformationists to be inside human sperm)
 * 3)   homunculus (nerve map realized as a distorted representation of the human body)

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) a little or weak man, homunculus
 * 2)  a dwarf
 * 1)  a dwarf

Etymology
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