n. 个体发生, 个体发生学

[医] 个体发生, 个体发育

[ noun ]
(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
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he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children

Ontogenesis \On`to*gen"e*sis\, Ontogeny \On*tog"e*ny\, n. [See
{Ontology}, and {Genesis}.] (Biol.)
The history of the individual development of an organism; the
sequence of events involved in the development of an
organism; the history of the evolution of the germ; the
development of an individual organism, -- in distinction from
{phylogeny}, or evolution of the tribe. Called also
{henogenesis}, {henogeny}.

Syn: growth, growing, maturation, development.