respecify
verbEtymology From re- + specify.
1
To specify again; to alter an earlier specification
- In the tobacco hornworm, many larval motoneurons become respecified and supply new muscles in the adult.1976, J.W. Truman, S.E. Reiss, “Dendritic reorganization of an identified motoneuron during metamorphosis of the tobacco hornworm moth”, in Science, volume 192, number 4238:
- Derived terms
- respecification