(fe″tәl-ĭ-za´shәn) retention in the adult of structures or other characteristics that at an earlier stage of evolution were only infantile and were lost as the organism matured.
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fetalism, fetalization The retention, into adult life, of bodily characters which at some earlier stage of evolutionary history were actually only infantile and were rapidly lost as the organism attained maturity.
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