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Definition of Ontogenesis
1. 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"
Specialized synonyms: Culture, Amelogenesis, Angiogenesis, Apposition, Auxesis, Anthesis, Blossoming, Efflorescence, Florescence, Flowering, Inflorescence, Caenogenesis, Cainogenesis, Cenogenesis, Kainogenesis, Kenogenesis, Cohesion, Cultivation, Cytogenesis, Cytogeny, Foliation, Leafing, Fructification, Gametogenesis, Germination, Sprouting, Habit, Infructescence, Intussusception, Juvenescence, Life Cycle, Masculinisation, Masculinization, Virilisation, Virilization, Morphogenesis, Myelinisation, Myelinization, Neurogenesis, Palingenesis, Recapitulation, Proliferation, Psychogenesis, Psychogenesis, Psychomotor Development, Psychosexual Development, Rooting, Suppression, Dentition, Odontiasis, Teething, Teratogenesis, Vegetation
Category relationships: Biological Science, Biology
Terms within: Gastrulation
Generic synonyms: Biological Process, Organic Process
Examples of category: Isometry
Derivative terms: Develop, Develop, Developmental, Grow, Grow, Grow, Grow, Grow, Grow, Maturate, Maturational, Mature, Ontogenetic, Ontogenetic
Antonyms: Nondevelopment
Definition of Ontogenesis
1. n. The history of the individual development of an organism; the history of the evolution of the germ; the development of an individual organism, -- in distinction from phylogeny, or evolution of the tribe. Called also henogenesis, henogeny.
Definition of Ontogenesis
1. Noun. the arising or development of an individual organism. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ontogenesis
1. [n -GENESES]
Medical Definition of Ontogenesis
1. The total of the stages of an organisms life history. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ontogenesis
Literary usage of Ontogenesis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Doctrine of Descent and Darwinism by Schmidt (Eduard Oskar) (1876)
"The Development of the Individual (ontogenesis) is a Repetition of the ...
The phenomena of individual development or ontogenesis admit of no other choice ..."
2. The History of Creation: Or, The Development of the Earth and Its by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1883)
"ontogenesis, or Individual Development of Organisms. ... Causal Connection and
Parallelism of ontogenesis and Phylogenesis, that is of the Development of ..."
3. Biology, General and Medical by Joseph McFarland (1920)
"The study of the intervening transformations through which each organism must
pass is known as ontogenesis or ontogeny. During the early stages of ..."
4. History of the Human Body by Harris Hawthorne Wilder (1909)
"CHAPTER III THE ontogenesis OF VERTEBRATES "... the embryological record, as it
is usually presented to us, is both imperfect and misleading. ..."
5. Dynamic Sociology by Lester Frank Ward (1883)
"... —Embryogeny—ontogenesis a recapitulation of phylogenesis—Nature and functions
of chlorophyl—Fibro-vascular bundles—First appearance of leaves—Carbon the ..."
6. Dynamic Sociology: Or Applied Social Science by Lester Frank Ward (1897)
"... —Embryogeny—ontogenesis a recapitulation of phylogenesis—Nature and functions
of chlorophyl—Fibro-vascular bundles—First appearance of leaves—Carbon the ..."
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