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Medical Definition of organism. : an individual constituted to carry on the activities of life by means of organs separate in function but mutually dependent : a living being.
Each organism of a species is normally characterized by the same number of chromosomes in its somatic cells, 46 being the number normally present in humans, including 22 pairs of autosomes and the two sex chromosomes (XX or XY), which determine the sex of the organism. (See also heredity.) Chromosome Analysis.