Definition of Ontogenesis

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 Ontogenesis

1. n. The history of the individual development of an organism; the history of the evolution of the germ; the development of an individual organism, -- in distinction from phylogeny, or evolution of the tribe. Called also henogenesis, henogeny.

Definition of Ontogenesis

1. Noun. the arising or development of an individual organism. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ontogenesis

1. [n -GENESES]

Medical Definition of Ontogenesis

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 Ontogenesis

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

Literary usage of Ontogenesis

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

1. The Doctrine of Descent and Darwinism by Schmidt (Eduard Oskar) (1876)
"The Development of the Individual (ontogenesis) is a Repetition of the ... The phenomena of individual development or ontogenesis admit of no other choice ..."

2. The History of Creation: Or, The Development of the Earth and Its by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1883)
"ontogenesis, or Individual Development of Organisms. ... Causal Connection and Parallelism of ontogenesis and Phylogenesis, that is of the Development of ..."

3. Biology, General and Medical by Joseph McFarland (1920)
"The study of the intervening transformations through which each organism must pass is known as ontogenesis or ontogeny. During the early stages of ..."

4. History of the Human Body by Harris Hawthorne Wilder (1909)
"CHAPTER III THE ontogenesis OF VERTEBRATES "... the embryological record, as it is usually presented to us, is both imperfect and misleading. ..."

5. Dynamic Sociology by Lester Frank Ward (1883)
"... —Embryogeny—ontogenesis a recapitulation of phylogenesis—Nature and functions of chlorophyl—Fibro-vascular bundles—First appearance of leaves—Carbon the ..."

6. Dynamic Sociology: Or Applied Social Science by Lester Frank Ward (1897)
"... —Embryogeny—ontogenesis a recapitulation of phylogenesis—Nature and functions of chlorophyl—Fibro-vascular bundles—First appearance of leaves—Carbon the ..."

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