animalculism (English, noun)
expansion: animalculism (uncountable)
Senses:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A theory seeking to explain certain physiological and pathological phenomena in terms of animalcules.
tags: archaic
uncountable
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The theory that the spermatozoon and not the ovum contains the whole of the embryo; spermism.
tags: archaic
uncountable
Forms: