histogeny
nounEtymology Learned borrowing from German Histogenie, itself from histo- + -genie; equivalent to histo- (“biological tissue”) + -geny (“origin”).
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Biology, Natural sciences Historical, Rare The study of the evolution of the forms of biological cells and tissues by observing the supposed ontogenic recapitulation of that phylogeny.
Theory of recapitulation
- Antonyms
- histophyly
- Hypernyms
- morphogeny
- Coordinate terms
- organogeny, blastogeny, cormogeny