How To Use Homunculus In A Sentence
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We've moved from imagining a little homunculus lurking in the sperm to one hiding in the genome.
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There is no graphical representation - nothing like the tiny homunculus curled up in the head of a sperm which some of the earlier microscopists imagined they could see.
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York that the future bride of the famous homunculus is Miss Lavinia Warren, twenty-one inches high, and granddaughter of General Warren, who was killed at the battle of Bunker's Hill.
General Tom Thumb
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Yet other preformationists believed that the sperm contained the embryo and some even claimed to be able to see a tiny human - a homunculus - in the head of each human sperm.
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He is a homunculus in the grip of a theatrical power greater than himself.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the caricatured version, preformationism has usually been ridiculed as the belief that a perfect homunculus lies within each sperm or egg cell.
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Even if skin color were taken as a signifier for race, a metonym for some racial homunculus, all it would prove is a trope, not an index.
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Had Victor not abandoned his original mentors, necromancers like Paracelsus, Cornelius Agrippa, and Albertus Magnus, he might have created a harmless homunculus instead of the creature, who exacts revenge upon him.
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Yesterday afternoon I answered the doorbell and came face to face with an evil homunculus.
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'homunculus' -- in the conviction, as he asserted, that 'in course of time chemistry is bound to succeed in producing organic bodies and in creating a human being by means of crystallization' -- an assertion not very different from that of a still more trustworthy scientist, for
The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'
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You'll either be enthralled or bored to tears, but you'll know exactly what a "homunculus" is, and in context, not just from a dry, dusty dictionary definition.
Paglia's purple piffle.
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The story itself tells how lawyers from a big corporation try to muscle in on the momentous invention of an obscure homunculus, Charles Lang, whereby engines could run on plain tap water.
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Usually it refers to some small, original version of a much larger thing (Wisconsin's welfare program was said to be the homunculus version of the federal Welfare Reform Act of 1996; Iceland's ancient parliament, the Althing, is the homunculus version of Congress), but it can also mean someone who resembles the homunculi depicted in illuminated treatises.
Never Mind
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So then Thomas evaded the morality issue by asserting that the homunculus has only a sensitive rather than a rational soul, and therefore can be classified as subhuman and fit for research purposes.
Us and Stem - Only The Daily Show Can Help Us Now
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And we threw out the governor and replaced him with this kind of wizened homunculus who used to play robots.
Chris Kelly: David Vitter Has a New Fetish
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In ‘Portrait of a Dwarf’, the homunculus stares back implacably at the viewer, returning our gaze while apparently indifferent to the upturned, writhing nude male in a glass cage to his left.
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As he watches, the outlines of a diminutive human being -- a mannikin or 'homunculus' -- become visible and rapidly gain distinct form.
The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'
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The homunculus stares solemnly at my sere soil.
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What has come to be known as the homunculus theory of vision has long been discredited.
Detaching the Retina
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I think one of the reasons Street of Crocodiles is so successful (aside from the wonderful thread mechanics that run through it, the dust, the glass, the ...! the ...!) is the way the main character, and the minor ones too, possess this kind of eery homunculus quality, as if they were born from some disturbing ritual.
Archive 2007-08-01
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The homunculus is the mapping of the body into the motor cortex, which is a portion of the brain located approximately under the portion of the scalp that would be occupied by a Mohawk hairdo.
On the Threshold of the Avatar Era
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When I finally met the man, a pinched homunculus with nervous eyes and no eyebrows, he pushed me right out of his office.
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It can stand as a kind of homunculus to Penny's full-formed person.
An Althouse blog fund-raiser.
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The following medical illustration, called a homunculus, is a graphic representation of the large area of the brain that is associated with hand movement.
Meditation as Medicine
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As grubby and alcoholic as a homunculus can be, he is also a kind, sensitive soul and a musician of some talent.
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The word "signals" jumps out: Elsewhere the author criticizes the homunculi little men, making quite difficult determinations, that pervade putative neuroscientific accounts of the mind; there is more than a hint of a homunculus in the notion of neurons that "signal" to one another.
Rethinking Thinking
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Yet other preformationists believed that the sperm contained the embryo and some even claimed to be able to see a tiny human - a homunculus - in the head of each human sperm.
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The front desk was old-school, too - a weary homunculus behind a desk, reading a newspaper, fetching your key and your messages from the slots behind him.
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As Wilder Penfield discovered in the 1950s, much of the brain is connected not to the sensors along the body's surface (skin, eyes, ears) but instead to a representation of the body (the "homunculus") that is mapped directly onto the surface of the brain.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
