Definitions
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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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
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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
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“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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