ontogeny

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noun

(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically;
a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
- he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children
• Syn:
growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogenesis
• Ant:
nondevelopment (for: development)
• Derivationally related forms:
ontogenetic (for: ontogenesis), ontogenetic, developmental (for: development), develop (for: development), maturational (for: maturation), mature (for: maturation), maturate (for: maturation), grow (for: growing), grow (for: growth)
• Topics:
biology, biological science
• Members of this Topic:
isometry
• Hypernyms:
organic process, biological process
• Hyponyms:
culture, amelogenesis, angiogenesis, apposition, auxesis,
blossoming, flowering, florescence, inflorescence, anthesis, efflorescence,
cenogenesis, kenogenesis, caenogenesis, cainogenesis, kainogenesis, cohesion,
cultivation, cytogenesis, cytogeny, foliation, leafing, fructification,
gametogenesis, germination, sprouting, habit, infructescence, intussusception,
juvenescence, life cycle, masculinization, masculinisation, virilization, virilisation,
morphogenesis, myelinization, myelinisation, neurogenesis, palingenesis, recapitulation,
proliferation, psychogenesis, psychomotor development, psychosexual development, rooting, suppression,
teething, dentition, odontiasis, teratogenesis, vegetation
• Part Meronyms:
gastrulation

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogenesis