homunculus
英 [həˈmʌŋkjələs] 美 [hoˈmʌŋkjələs, hə-]

n.

矮人，侏儒；

变形

复数：homunculi

英英释义

homunculus[ həu'mʌŋkjuləs ]

• n.
  • a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal

    同义词：manikinmannikin

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

权威例句

Somatosensory homunculus as drawn by MEG
The 'Ideal Homunculus': decoding neural population signals
Abnormal somatosensory homunculus in dystonia of the hand
The cognitive paradigm and the immunological homunculus.
Clever homunculus: Is there an endogenous act of control in the explicit task-cuing procedure?
Immunity, microbial immunity and the im munological homunculus
Autoimmunity, microbial immunity and the immunological homunculus.
Executive control of thought and action: In search of the wild homunculus.
Towards an executive without a homunculus: computational models of the prefrontal cortex/basal ganglia system.
Cohen, I. R. The cognitive paradigm and the immunological homunculus. Immunol. Today 13, 490-494