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Definition of: recapitulation
(rē′kə·pich′
·lā′shən) noun
1. The act of recapitulating; a summing up.
2. Biol. The process in which a developing embryo reproduces many of the typical forms of the organisms that precede it in the line of evolution. [<L recapitulatio, -onis]
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