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Organogenesis :: Organogenesis (n.) The origin and development of organs in animals and plants.

Heterocercy :: Heterocercy (n.) Unequal development of the tail lobes of fishes; the possession of a heterocercal tail.

Trachymedusae :: Trachymedusae (n. pl.) A division of acalephs in which the development is direct from the eggs, without a hydroid stage. Some of the species are parasitic on other medusae..

Pathogeny :: Pathogeny (n.) The generation, and method of development, of disease; as, the pathogeny of yellow fever is unsettled..

Precocity :: Precocity (n.) The quality or state of being precocious; untimely ripeness; premature development, especially of the mental powers; forwardness..

Mature :: Mature (superl.) Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriate to its kind; full-grown; ripe..

Dynamo-electric :: Dynamo-electric (a.) Pertaining to the development of electricity, especially electrical currents, by power; producing electricity or electrical currents by mechanical power..

Stage :: Stage (n.) One of several marked phases or periods in the development and growth of many animals and plants; as, the larval stage; pupa stage; zoea stage..

Cicatricle :: Cicatricle (n.) The germinating point in the embryo of a seed; the point in the yolk of an egg at which development begins.

Odontogeny :: Odontogeny (n.) Generetion, or mode of development, of the teeth..

Muscle :: Muscle (n.) Muscular strength or development; as, to show one's muscle by lifting a heavy weight..

Phylogeny :: Phylogeny (n.) The history of genealogical development; the race history of an animal or vegetable type; the historic exolution of the phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally..

Tubercular :: Tubercular (a.) Characterized by the development of tubercles; as, tubercular diathesis..

Magneto-electricity :: Magneto-electricity (n.) That branch of science which treats of the development of electricity by the action of magnets; -- the counterpart of electro-magnetism.

Electro-magnetism :: Electro-magnetism (n.) The magnetism developed by a current of electricity; the science which treats of the development of magnetism by means of voltaic electricity, and of the properties or actions of the currents evolved..

Integration :: Integration (n.) In the theory of evolution: The process by which the manifold is compacted into the relatively simple and permanent. It is supposed to alternate with differentiation as an agent in development.

Embryogenic :: Embryogenic (a.) Pertaining to the development of an embryo.

Pseudovum :: Pseudovum (n.) An egglike germ produced by the agamic females of some insects and other animals, and by the larvae of certain insects. It is capable of development without fertilization. See Illust. of Paedogenesis..

Degradation :: Degradation (n.) Arrest of development, or degeneration of any organ, or of the body as a whole..

Development :: Development (n.) The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization..

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