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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 thefunctions , or the history of the development of vital activities, in the individual, being one of the branches ofontogeny .
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physio- + -geny
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