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"


Definition of Ontogeny

1. Noun. The development of an individual organism. ¹

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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

onstream
ontake
ontario
ontic
ontically
onto
onto-
onto land
ontogeneses
ontogenesis
ontogenetic
ontogenetically
ontogenic
ontogenic homeostasis
ontogenies
ontogeny (current term)
ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny
ontologic
ontological
ontological argument
ontological arguments
ontological proof
ontological shock
ontologically
ontologies
ontologism
ontologisms
ontologist
ontologists
ontology

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