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ONTOGENY

\ɒntˈɒd͡ʒəni], \ɒntˈɒd‍ʒəni], \ɒ_n_t_ˈɒ_dʒ_ə_n_i]\

Definitions of ONTOGENY

2011 - English Dictionary Database
1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary

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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"

2011 - English Dictionary Database
By DataStellar Co., Ltd

An accurate account of progressive individual growth.

1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
By William R. Warner

Ontogenesis, which see.

1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.

Development of an organism or ovum.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

The history of the evolution of an individual. See phylogeny. [Gr.]
The doctrine of the production of species by special creation only, as opposed to phylogeny. [Gr.]

1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
By Smith Ely Jelliffe

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