ONTOGENESIS
Definition:
- [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"
Synonyms: growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny
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Related Words:
- culture
- amelogenesis
- angiogenesis
- apposition
- auxesis
- blossoming, flowering, florescence, inflorescence, anthesis, efflorescence
- cenogenesis, kenogenesis, caenogenesis, cainogenesis, kainogenesis
- cohesion
- cytogenesis, cytogeny
- foliation, leafing
- fructification
- gametogenesis
- germination, sprouting
- infructescence
- intussusception
- juvenescence
- life cycle
- masculinization, masculinisation, virilization, virilisation
- morphogenesis
- myelinization, myelinisation
- neurogenesis
- palingenesis, recapitulation
- proliferation
- psychomotor development
- psychosexual development
- rooting
- suppression
- teething, dentition, odontiasis
- teratogenesis
- vegetation
