English

heteroplasm

From hetero- + plasm.

A compound of hetero- + plasm

Proto-Indo-European *sem- ‘one, whole’

Proto-Indo-European *sḿ̥teros

Proto-Hellenic *hə́teros

Ancient Greek ἕτερος ‘other, another, different’

Late Latin plasma ‘mold’

English plasm

Today it means

noun Tissue growing in a part of the body where it does not normally occur.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / heteroplasm