physiogeny

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English

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Etymology

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From physio- +‎ -geny.

Noun

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physiogeny (uncountable)

  1. (biology) The germ history of the functions, or the history of the development of vital activities, in the individual, being one of the branches of ontogeny.
    • 1874, Ernst Haeckel, The Evolution of Man:
      It will, therefore, be the task of a future Physiogeny to grasp the history of the evolution of the functions with the same earnestness

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