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- noun a process occurring in living organisms
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- Krebs cycle
- absorption
- activity
- adaptation
- adaption
- adjustment
- ageing
- agglutination
- aging
- anovulation
- antisepsis
- asepsis
- assimilation
- autoregulation
- bacteriostasis
- birth
- birthing
- blistering
- bloom
- blooming
- bodily function
- bodily process
- body process
- carbon cycle
- catabolism
- cell division
- cellular division
- citric acid cycle
- crossing over
- crossover
- cytokinesis
- defoliation
- deossification
- destructive metabolism
- development
- digestion
- dissimilation
- eburnation
- ecchymosis
- effacement
- epistasis
- erythropoiesis
- eutrophication
- evolution
- expression
- extravasation
- folding
- gastrulation
- giving birth
- glycogenesis
- growing
- growth
- haematogenesis
- haematopoiesis
- haemogenesis
- haemopoiesis
- hematogenesis
- hematopoiesis
- hemogenesis
- hemopoiesis
- heredity
- humification
- hypostasis
- implantation
- infolding
- inhibition
- introversion
- intussusception
- invagination
- involution
- karyokinesis
- katabolism
- keratinisation
- keratinization
- krebs citric acid cycle
- lymphopoiesis
- lysogenisation
- lysogenization
- maturation
- maturement
- metabolic process
- metabolism
- metamorphosis
- nidation
- nitrogen cycle
- nitrogen fixation
- nondevelopment
- nutrition
- ontogenesis
- ontogeny
- organic evolution
- organification
- ossification
- ovulation
- oxidative phosphorylation
- parturition
- pathologic process
- pathological process
- perennation
- phylogenesis
- phylogeny
- preservation
- protein folding
- quellung
- quellung reaction
- quickening
- reabsorption
- regeneration
- regulation
- replication
- reproduction
- resorption
- ripening
- sanguification
- secernment
- secretion
- segregation
- senescence
- shedding
- sloughing
- summation
- symphysis
- synapsis
- synezesis
- synizesis
- transcription
- transduction
- translation
- translocation
- transpiration
- tricarboxylic acid cycle
- tumefaction
- ulceration
- vascularisation
- vascularization
- vesication
- vesiculation
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