organogeny
English
Etymology 1
From organo- (“biological organs”) + -geny (“origin”).
Noun
organogeny (usually uncountable, plural organogenies)
- (dated) Organogenesis.
Etymology 2
Learned borrowing from German Organogenie, itself from organo- + -genie; equivalent to organo- (“biological organs”) + -geny (“origin”).
Noun
organogeny (usually uncountable, plural organogenies)
- (historical, biology, theory of recapitulation) The study of the evolution of the forms of biological organs and systems of organs by observing the supposed ontogenic recapitulation of that phylogeny.[1]
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References
- “organogeny”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- ^ Ernst Haeckel (1874) “Das Grundgesetz der organischen Entwickelung” (chapter I), in Anthropogenie; oder, Entwickelungsgeschichte des Menschen. Gemeinverständliche wissenschaftliche Vorträge über die Grundzüge der Menschlichen. Keimes- und Stammes-geschichte, volume 1, page 18; translated as “The Fundamental Law of the Evolution of Organisms”, in The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human Ontogeny and Phylogeny. From the German of Ernst Haeckel., 1897, page 24.