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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In biology, the genesis of function; the development or evolution of those functions of living matter which are the province of physiology.
  • noun The science or history of the evolution of functions of living matter.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Biol.) The germ history of the functions, or the history of the development of vital activities, in the individual, being one of the branches of ontogeny. See morphogeny.

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  • noun biology The germ history of the functions, or the history of the development of vital activities, in the individual, being one of the branches of ontogeny.

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physio- + -geny

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