allo-, all-

Referring to uncontrolled movements of the body: Sharon's doctor told her that she had an allocinetic condition in which she made unexpected movements that she could not control.

The areas or portions of the cerebral cortex where lamination is absent or incomplete, as with the olfactory cortex, representing less developed or more primitive areas: The allocortexes are the parts of the cerebral cortex medial to the rhinal fissure during embryonic development that fail to differentiate into a six-layered isocortex.

A reference to organisms that use a covering of other organisms or inanimate material to conceal themselves: Examples of allocryptic life forms are the spong or the hermit crab.

The differences in coiling behavior in chromosomes or regions of a chromosome: Allocycly can exist in some sex chromosomes, in the nucleolar organizer, and centromere.

Possession of two sets of chromosomes, each from a different species: Allodiploidy is the condition of a hybrid life form or a cell having at least two groups of chromosomes from two dissimilar genealogical species.

An intensive anxiety or strong concern about the possible opinions or criticisms of others: James has an allodoxaphobia about people who have negative views concerning what he is striving to accomplish in his research regarding making vocabulary words easier to comprehend.

The condition in which an ordinarily painless stimulus, once perceived, is experienced as being painful: Mrs. Nice told her doctor that any light contact on her skin, or just the thought of being touched, caused her suffering which she found out was termed allodynia.

Allodynia can be a pain from a stimulus which is not normally painful.

A condition of allodynia may occur somewhere other than in the area stimulated.

A change or alteration in the character of one's constitution or of a disease: Dr. Hill told Julie that an alloeosis was quite noticeable because she recovered from her severe ailment.

Regarding a modification or change in the nature of a person's constitution or ailment: Am alloeotic situation arose when Mrs. Tall suddenly could not walk properly and fell down.

A disorder of the localization of tactile stimuli, in which the patient feels the sensation at a corresponding point on the opposite side of the body to which the stimulus is applied: Dr. Kilfoil confirmed the diagnosis of alloesthesia after observing the response of Nathan as he was jerking his left foot despite the fact Dr. Kilfoil had administered a pin prick on the right foot.

A reference to a disorder of the localization of tactile stimuli: When Dr. Thompson vaccinated Janet, she felt an alloesthesic sensation at the corresponding point on the opposite side of her body from that which the vaccination had been applied!

In botany, regarding cross fertilization: A allogamous situation takes place by cross-pollination among flowering plants

Cross-fertilization in plants: The creation of a new plant by cross-pollination involving the physical union of male and female gametes is termed allogamy.

Allogamy is the fertilization of the ova of one individual by the spermatozoa of another.

A mineral or rock fragment that was derived from preexisting rock and transported to its present site of deposition; allothigene; allothogene: On the field trip, Greg found some allogenes that had evidently been deposited at a new area, the place where Greg was standing.

1. Having a different genetic constitution but belonging to the same species.
2. In immunology, describing material coming from a genetically distinct member of the same species, as serum, tissue, or cells.