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  2. Homunculus - Wikipedia

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    The homunculus is commonly used today in scientific disciplines such as psychology as a teaching or memory tool to describe the distorted scale model of a human drawn or sculpted to reflect the relative space human body parts occupy on the somatosensory cortex (the sensory homunculus) and the motor cortex (the motor homunculus).

  3. Homunculus (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Homunculus Nebula, a part of the Eta Carinae Nebula; Cortical homunculus, also known as the Penfield homunculus, a physical representation of the primary motor cortex of the rest of the body; Fetiform teratoma, a rare cyst having a fetal structure; The homunculus argument is a fallacy arising most commonly in the theory of vision

  4. Homunculus loxodontus - Wikipedia

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    Homunculus Loxodontus (nicknamed Zhdun, "The One Who Waits", Snorp, or WOSH) [1] [2] is a statue by Dutch artist Margriet van Breevoort . It was made for the Leiden University Medical Center and installed in the spring of 2016. [ 3 ]

  5. Cortical homunculus - Wikipedia

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    A 2-D model of cortical sensory homunculus. A cortical homunculus (from Latin homunculus 'little man, miniature human' [1] [2]) is a distorted representation of the human body, based on a neurological "map" of the areas and portions of the human brain dedicated to processing motor functions, and/ or sensory functions, for different parts of the body.

  6. Elemental - Wikipedia

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    Although Paracelsus uses these foundations and the popular preexisting names of elemental creatures, he is doing so to present new ideas which expand on his own philosophical system. The homunculus is another example of a Paracelsian idea with roots in earlier alchemical, scientific, and folklore traditions.

  7. Preformationism - Wikipedia

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    A homonculus inside a sperm cell, as drawn by Nicolaas Hartsoeker in 1695 Jan Swammerdam, Miraculum naturae sive uteri muliebris fabrica, 1729. In the history of biology, preformationism (or preformism) is a formerly popular theory that organisms develop from miniature versions of themselves.

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  9. List of legendary creatures (H) - Wikipedia

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    Homunculus – small animated construct; Hō-ō – rooster-swallow-fowl-snake-goose-tortoise-stag-fish hybrid; Hoopoe (multiple cultures) – near passerine bird common to Africa and Eurasia that features in many mythologies in those continents