Noun: ontogenesis ,ón-tu'je-nu-sis
- (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 ontogenesis in children";
- growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny
Type of: biological process, organic process
Encyclopedia: Ontogenesis