Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The disproportionate growth of a part or parts of an organism as the organism changes in size.
  • noun The study of such growth.

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

  • noun the study of the relative growth of a part of an organism in relation to the growth of the whole.

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  • noun biology The science studying the differential growth rates of the parts of a living organism's body part or process.

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  • noun the study of the relative growth of a part of an organism in relation to the growth of the whole

Etymologies

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allo- + -metry

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Examples

  • Ontogenetic allometry in the fang in the front-fanged Causus rhombeatus Viperidae displaces the fang along the upper jaw.

    The Panda's Thumb: Development Archives 2010

  • In this study, I compare patterns of intracranial allometry and morphologic diversity between the domestic dog and wild canid species.

    "Intraspecific macroevolution" within domestic dog breeds - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • Temperature-mediated transitions between isometry and allometry in a colonial, modular invertebarte.

    Biology of early life stage of tropical reef corals 2008

  • Tyrannosaurus Didn't Have the Nerve to Run Fast | Dinosaur Tracking positive allometry & the prehistory of sexual selection - BioBlog

    Discover Blogs 2010

  • Patterns of growth and allometry were similar between ponds of different hydroperiods, but considerable life history variation was derived from modulating the timing of and size at metamorphosis.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles 2010

  • Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium who has studied allometry, or size scaling, since graduate school.

    Scientific American 2010

  • Patterns of growth and allometry were similar between ponds of different hydroperiods, but considerable life history variation was derived from modulating the timing of and size at metamorphosis.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles 2010

  • Patterns of growth and allometry were similar between ponds of different hydroperiods, but considerable life history variation was derived from modulating the timing of and size at metamorphosis.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles 2010

  • Encephalization data was then used to map changes in relative brain size within specific clades (known as reconstructing a scaling allometry).

    بالاترین 2009

  • Placental invasiveness and brain-body allometry in eutherian mammals Cholesterol metabolism in the central nervous system during early development and in the mature animal

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

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  • "First, Bang and Cobb had not considered the phenomenon of allometry—the way that organs scale with body size."

    Tim Birkhead, Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird (New York: Walker & Co., 2002)

    October 11, 2015