developmental biologyn.
/dᵻˌvɛləpˌmɛntl bʌɪˈɒlədʒi/, U.S. /dəˌvɛləpˌmɛn(t)l ˌbaɪˈɑlədʒi/ The physiological, anatomical, and (in later use) genetic and molecular processes involved in the ontogenesis of an organism; the branch of biology dealing with this.
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micrography1658
micrology1848
biostatics1849
electrobiology1849
biotechnics1852
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phylogeny1872
developmental biology1877
psychobiology1879
microbiology1880
biokinetics1883
bacteriology1884
geratology1884
thremmatology1888
cell biology1889
biophysics1892
biomechanics1899
pathobiology1900
biometry1901
biometrics1902
metabiology1906
bioenergetics1907
radiobiology1919
biomedicine1922
photobiology1923
virology1935
sociobiology1946
space biology1955
prebiology1963
chronobiology1969
glycobiology1988
1877 Trans. Amer. Dental Assoc. 1876 131 A tabulation of physiological developmental processes..which he [sc. William Fishbough] names ‘Pantagram of Developmental Biology’.
1909 Pop. Sci. Monthly Aug. 187 To ascertain the differences and the traits-in-common all along the line is exactly what the business of developmental biology is.
1969 Times 10 Jan. 27/5 (advt.) Preference will be given to candidates with graduate experience in cell physiology and/or developmental biology.
1995 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 349 105/1 The developmental biology community welcomed the zebrafish model with open arms and many research programmes were switched from Drosophila to Danio.
2003 Molecular & Biochem. Parasitol. 126 25 The developmental biology of E[chinococcus] granulosus in the definitive host has been fully described microscopically.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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