Usually means: Subject to external laws, control.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. heteronomous: Merriam-Webster
  2. heteronomous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. heteronomous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. heteronomous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. heteronomous: Wordnik
  6. heteronomous: Wiktionary
  7. heteronomous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. heteronomous: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. heteronomous: Dictionary.com
  10. Heteronomous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. heteronomous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Heteronomous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. heteronomous: FreeDictionary.org
  14. heteronomous: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  15. heteronomous: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. heteronomous: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Heteronomous: MedFriendly Glossary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. heteronomous: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (heteronomous)

adjective:  Arising from an external influence, force, or agency; not autonomous.
adjective:  (biology, of parts of an organism) Differing in development or in specialization.
adjective:  (linguistics, of a language) Being a dialect of an autonomous language.

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