Nouns denoting natural proesses
- fructification
- the bearing of fruit
- apogamy
- (botany) development of an embryo without fertilization; especially the development in some ferns of a sporophyte from the gametophyte without fertilization
- asynchronous operation
- operations that occur without a regular or predictable time relation to other events
- virilisation
- the abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction)
- attack
- the onset of a corrosive or destructive process (as by a chemical agent)
- gynogenesis
- female parthenogenesis in which the embryo contains only maternal chromosomes due to the failure of the sperm to fuse with the egg nucleus
- agglutination
- the coalescing of small particles that are suspended in solution; these larger masses are then (usually) precipitated
- flowering
- a developmental process
- chemical reaction
- (chemistry) a process in which one or more substances are changed into others
- differentiation
- (biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function
- mitosis
- cell division in which the nucleus divides into nuclei containing the same number of chromosomes
- bm
- a euphemism for defecation
- decline in quality
- process of changing to an inferior state
- ossification
- the calcification of soft tissue into a bonelike material
- stress incontinence
- urinary incontinence that occurs when involuntary pressure is put on the bladder by coughing or laughing or sneezing or lifting or straining
- electrolysis
- (chemistry) a chemical decomposition reaction produced by passing an electric current through a solution containing ions
- tearing
- shedding tears
- lymphopoiesis
- the formation of lymphocytes in the bone marrow and lymph nodes and thymus and spleen
- hemagglutination
- agglutination of red blood cells
- blowing
- processing that involves blowing a gas
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