0 something that has a similar position, structure, value, or purpose to something else:
Chronic fatigue syndrome has had its homologues for many years, including such poorly described disease states as neurasthenia.
I was reminded of the many similarities with the American Civil War of 1861-65: not just the death toll, but the homologue of Oxford and Richmond, Virginia, as doomed capitals.
Connections between visual and cerebellar regions are putative human homologues of connections in the macaque brain.
A diploid cell contains two of each type of chromosome, one homologue from the mother and one homologue from the father.
