Homeosis vs Homeotic - What's the difference?

As a noun homeosis

is (pathology) the formation of a normal plant or animal structure or organ in place of another at an abnormal site; the transformation of one body part to another.

As an adjective homeotic is

of or pertaining to homeosis.

homeosis

English

Alternative forms

* homoeosis * * homoiosis

Noun

(wikipedia homeosis) (-)

(pathology) the formation of a normal plant or animal structure or organ in place of another at an abnormal site; the transformation of one body part to another.

(archaic) Usage of similitude in rhetoric; drawing a conclusion from similarity of two objects of study.

* 1663 ,

Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat; \ Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate: \ For though the thesis which thou lay'st \ Be true, ad amussim, as thou say'st; \ For that bear-baiting should appear, \ Jure divino, lawfuller \ Than synods are, thou dost deny \ Totidem verbis; so do I: \ Yet there's a fallacy in this; \ For if by sly homœosis , \ Thou wouldst sophistically imply \ Both are unlawful, I deny.

homeotic
English

Alternative forms
* * homoeotic
Adjective
(en adjective)
Of or pertaining to homeosis.

*1999 , (Matt Ridley), Genome , Harper Perennial 2004, p. 176:

*:A certain segment of the body, in other words, had done something appropriate to a different segment of the body. Something had gone wrong with the homeotic genes.

* 2003 , (Bill Bryson), A Short History of Nearly Everything , BCA 2003, p. 365:

Further probings revealed the existence of a clutch of master control genes, each directing the development of a section of body, which were dubbed homeotic (from a Greek word meaning ‘similar’) or hox genes.