ontogenesis

Noun
  1. (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 (synset 113510240)
    "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children"
    referred to in: biological science, biology - the science that studies living organisms
    associated with: isometry - the growth rates in different parts of a growing organism are the same
    is a type of: biological process, organic process - a process occurring in living organisms
    subtypes:
    • culture - (biology) the growing of microorganisms in a nutrient medium (such as gelatin or agar)
    • amelogenesis - the developmental process of forming tooth enamel
    • angiogenesis - the formation of new blood vessels
    • apposition - (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material
    • auxesis - growth from increase in cell size without cell division
    • anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, flowering, inflorescence - the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms
    • caenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis - introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (such as the addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution)
    • cohesion - (botany) the process in some plants of parts growing together that are usually separate (such as petals)
    • cultivation - the process of fostering the growth of something
    • cytogenesis, cytogeny - the origin and development and variation of cells
    • foliation, leafing - (botany) the process of forming leaves
    • fructification - the bearing of fruit
    • gametogenesis - the development and maturation of sex cells through meiosis
    • germination, sprouting - the process whereby seeds or spores sprout and begin to grow
    • habit - the general form or mode of growth (especially of a plant or crystal)
    • infructescence - the fruiting stage of the inflorescence
    • intussusception - (biology) growth in the surface area of a cell by the deposit of new particles between existing particles in the cell wall
    • juvenescence - the process of growing into a youth
    • life cycle - the course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be produced
    • masculinisation, masculinization, virilisation, virilization - the abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction)
    • morphogenesis - differentiation and growth of the structure of an organism (or a part of an organism)
    • myelinisation, myelinization - the development of a myelin sheath around a nerve fiber
    • neurogenesis - the development of nerve tissues
    • palingenesis, recapitulation - emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species
    • proliferation - growth by the rapid multiplication of parts
    • psychogenesis - a general term for the origin and development of almost any aspect of the mind
    • psychogenesis - the development in the life of an individual of some disorder that is caused by psychological rather than physiological factors
    • psychomotor development - progressive acquisition of skills involving both mental and motor activities
    • psychosexual development - (psychoanalysis) the process during which personality and sexual behavior mature through a series of stages: first oral stage and then anal stage and then phallic stage and then latency stage and finally genital stage
    • rooting - the process of putting forth roots and beginning to grow
    • suppression - the failure to develop some part or organ
    • dentition, odontiasis, teething - the eruption through the gums of baby teeth
    • teratogenesis - the development of defects in an embryo
    • vegetation - the process of growth in plants
    has: gastrulation - the process in which a gastrula develops from a blastula by the inward migration of cells
    same as: development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogeny

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