Noun: ontogeny ón'tó-ju-nee
- (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 ontogeny in children";
- growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogenesis
Derived forms: ontogenies
Type of: biological process, organic process
Encyclopedia: Ontogeny