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Definition of Ontogeny
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 Ontogeny
1. Noun. The development of an individual organism. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ontogeny
1. the development of an individual organism [n -NIES]
Medical Definition of Ontogeny
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 Ontogeny
Literary usage of Ontogeny
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Creation: Or, The Development of the Earth and Its by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1883)
"No petrifactions could inform us of the fundamental and important fact which
ontogeny reveals to us, that the most ancient common ancestors of all the ..."
2. An Investigation of Evolution in Chrysomelid Beetles of the Genus Leptinotarsa by William Lawrence Tower (1906)
"Suggestive also along this same line are stages in the ontogeny of species like
... THE ontogeny OF COLOR ON THE WINGS. ON THE EI.YTRA. ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"The simplified condition, it is true, appears earlier and earlier in ontogeny
till it appears along the entire line of development, even in the earliest ..."
4. The Divine Pedigree of Man, Or, The Testimony of Evolution and Psychology to by Thomson Jay Hudson (1899)
"HUMAN ontogeny AND PHYLOGENY. The Strongest Argument in Favor of the ... ontogeny a
Repetition of Phylogeny. — Phylogeny the Cause of ontogeny under the Law ..."
5. The Evolution of Man; a Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haecker (1886)
"IF we wish to separate our historic survey of the course of the development of
the Science of Human ontogeny into parts, it is most convenient to make three ..."
6. The Germ-plasm: A Theory of Heredity by August Weismann (1893)
"This is only possible if they do so in the process of ontogeny. ... THE ID IN
ontogeny We can now make an attempt to solve the problem stated at the close ..."
7. Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems by August Weismann (1891)
"It is certainly true that in plants, and especially in the higher forms, the
germ-cells only make their appearance, as it were, at the end of ontogeny; ..."
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