allo-, all-

A regular recurrence of a cardiac rhythm disturbance: The elderly Mr. Simpson had a case of allorhythmia, an irregular heartbeat that recurred repeatedly.

Descriptive of the condition irregular heartbeats that recur repeatedly: The allorhythmic situation that the elderly Mrs. Adams experienced was treated by Dr. Evans.

1. A lizard from the Cretaceous period and found in North America: Allosaurids were extremely large and have also been said to have lived in every continent.
2. Etymology: from Latin, meaning “other lizard”.

1. A lizard that lived in the Jurassic period in North America, Africa, Australia, and maybe in Asia: One source calls the allosaurus a “strange (vertebra) lizard and the creature was formerly known as Labrosaurus and Saurophagus. It was named in 1877 by Othniel Charles Marsh (1831-1899).
2. Etymology: from Latin, meaning “other (or different) lizard

A reference to coloration or markings that imitate warning patterns of other typically noxious or dangerous organisms: Some animals use colors of another organism as a warning signal in order to mislead the enemy for protection.

Any chromosome or chromosome fragment other than a normal A-chromosome: An <>allosome is a chromosome, or a thread-like strand of DNA, that is different from the rest, like the sex chromosome.

The process by which the body responds to stresses in order to regain homeostasis, or the ability of a bodily system of a living organism to adjust its internal environment to maintain a state of dynamic constancy, such as the ability of warm-blooded animals to maintain a stable temperature: Allostasis is the process of achieving and maintaining stability with physiological or behavioral changes which organisms actively adjust to both predictable and unpredictable events; for example, if a person walking in the desert is hot, the body will sweat and it will quickly become dehydrated.

With allostasis during dehydration, sweat occurs as only a small part of the process with many other systems also adapting their functioning, both to reduce water use and to support the variety of other systems that are changing to aid this and so in this case, kidneys may reduce urine output, mucous membrane in the mouth, nose and eyes may dry out and sweat output will decrease

Referring to an alteration at one site that affects functions at another site: Allosteric binding of a molecule to an enzyme at a different site results in the activity of the enzyme's modulation and causes the shape to changed.

A change in the behavior of one part of a molecule: Judy read that an allosteric effect could be brought about by an alteration in another part of the molecule.

The worship of other or strange gods: In the fantasy story that Jill read, the people on the island believed in allotheism, the belief in some gods that were odd, unusual, and weird.

A subclass of Mammalia: Allotheria consisted of herbivorous mammals of the Upper Jurassic and became extinct in the Cenozoic.

An organism having a body temperature determined largely by the ambient or surrounding temperature: Allotherms, like reptiles and fish, are endowed with internal temperatures that vary depending on their surroundings.

In genetics, pertaining to a transformation or mutation that passes on a certain metabolic characteristic to one tissue that is usually found in another tissue: Judy read about allotopic alterations in her book of medicine that referred to cell nuclei.

The reality of a matter, particularly of an element, in at least two different forms: Crystals, for example, are considered to be allotopies and normally in the same phase.

An obsolete term for "antitoxin"in medicine, a cure or remedy that neutralises a poison: In her grandfather's old book on medicine, Joyce read that an allotoxin was an antibody that counteracted a poison.