Definition of Animalculism

An`i`mal´cu`lism
n.1.(Biol.) The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological phenomena by means of animalcules.
2.(Biol.) The theory that the spermatozoön and not the ovum contains the whole of the embryo; spermatism; - opposed to ovism.


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