Definition of Ontogenetic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to the origin and development of individual organisms. "Ontogenetic development"

Derivative terms: Ontogenesis, Ontogeny
Partainyms: Ontogeny

Definition of Ontogenetic

1. a. Of or pertaining to ontogenesis; as, ontogenetic phenomena.

Definition of Ontogenetic

1. Adjective. of or relating to ontogenesis ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ontogenetic

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Ontogenetic

1. Of or pertaining to ontogenesis; as, ontogenetic phenomena. Ontogenet"ically. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ontogenetic

onsold
onst
onstage
onstead
onsteads
onstream
ontake
ontario
ontic
ontically
onto
onto-
onto land
ontogeneses
ontogenesis
ontogenetic (current term)
ontogenetically
ontogenic
ontogenic homeostasis
ontogenies
ontogeny
ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny
ontologic
ontological
ontological argument
ontological arguments
ontological proof
ontological shock
ontologically
ontologies

Literary usage of Ontogenetic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Similar and more detailed ontogenetic studies have been made with mice, rats and the domestic fowl. Consult the works of Whitman, Craig,' Breed, Pearl, ..."

2. Evolution and Animal Life: An Elementary Discussion of Facts, Processes by David Starr Jordan, Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1907)
"A vast range of variations are ontogenetic, or dependent on influences affecting ... These ontogenetic variations are, strictly shaking, individual, ..."

3. Regeneration by Thomas Hunt Morgan (1901)
"THE SUPPOSED REPETITION OF PHYLOGENETIC AND ontogenetic PROCESSES IN REGENERATION It has been claimed that at times ontogenetic, and even phylo- genetic, ..."

4. The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1897)
"THE DURATION OP HUMAN TRIBAL HISTORY. Comparison of ontogenetic and Phylogenetic Periods of Time.—Duration of Germ-history in Man and in Different Animals. ..."

5. The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1883)
"Comparison of ontogenetic and Phylogenetic Periods of Time.—Duration of Germ-history in Man ... Relation of this Rapid ontogenetic Modification to the Slow ..."

6. The Vitality and Organization of Protoplasm by Edmund Montgomery (1904)
"For in the plasm of the germ-cell and its ontogenetic evolution all vital potencies are concentrated. And attempts at their interpretation occupy themselves ..."

7. Studies in morphogenesis by Charles Benedict Davenport (1895)
"These may be divided into two classes : 1. the grosser ontogenetic pro cesses ... In discussing the grosser ontogenetic processes we may distinguish (A) ..."

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