ONTOGENESIS

• (noun) (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level

  "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children"

  synonyms : development , growing , growth , maturation , ontogeny

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