heteroclitic
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (linguistics) Irregular in inflection.
2. (Indo-European studies) Signifying a nominal stem which alternates between more than one form when declined for grammatical case, particularly in the suffix, most often between *-r- in the strong stem and *-n- in the weak stem(s). Examples of heteroclitic noun stems in Proto-Indo-European include *wod-r/n- (“water”) (nominoaccusative *wódr̥; genitive *udnés; locative *udén) and *yékʷ-r/n- (“liver”) (nominoaccusative *yékʷr̥, genitive *ikʷnés).Indo-European-studies
3. (microbiology) Pertaining to antibodies that react to a wide variety of antigens.Examples: "[…] a heteroclitic response was never observed after the immunization with the deamidated peptide […]"
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