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resembling or related to a small, artificially created human or humanoid figure, often used in a metaphorical sense
- The scientist's experiment involved creating a homuncular model to study human development.
- In the fantasy novel, the wizard conjured a homuncular servant to assist him with his tasks.
- The artist's sculpture had a homuncular form, with exaggerated human features on a miniature body.
- She found the idea of a homuncular being controlling human actions from inside the brain quite intriguing.
- The lab's research focused on understanding homuncular representations in the brain's motor cortex.