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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to ontogeny, or the history of the individual development of an organized being.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Biol.) Ontogenetic.

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  • adjective ontogenetic

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Examples

  • Therefore, they provide user-friendly and broadly applicable tools for continuous time analyses for typical ontogenic transition data sets, as well as for predicting transitions at very fine time scales.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Anna Kuparinen et al. 2008

  • In January's issue, geneticist Pier Paolo Pandolfi of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York describes the cancer-causing POK erythroid myeloid ontogenic gene, calling it Pokemon.

    Boing Boing: December 18, 2005 - December 24, 2005 Archives 2005

  • ontogenic” and “phylogenic” repression — a limit di - rectly related to the coercive idea of authority through the paradigmatic figure of the “Primal Father” in both the myth of the species and the fantasies of the indi - vidual child — radical neo-Freudians like Marcuse and

    AUTHORITY LEONARD KRIEGER 1968

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