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Virkhovianstvo

Virkhovianstvo (R. Virchow, the German pathologist, 1821-1902) – idea of an organism, as about the mechanical system consisting of a set of cells ("the cellular state"), reacting to external actions by local changes of function and structure of the cells; does not take integrity of an organism into account.

 
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