Synonyms: palingenesis, recapitulation
Definition: emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species
Similar words: growing, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny, maturation, development
Definition: (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
Usage: he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children