Letter H

Heterophyes

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The replacement of normal tissue of the body by abnormal tissue or by malpositioned normal tissue, a tissue growing in the wrong place.

Progressive osseous heteroplasia is a disorder in which bone develops in areas where bone is normally absent.

There is heteroplasia of bone.

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