intussusception vs ontogeny

ontogeny vs intussusception

intussusception and ontogeny both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
intussusception	Yes	No	No	No
ontogeny	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, ontogeny is a hypernym of intussusception; that is, ontogeny is a word with a broader meaning than intussusception:

intussusception: (biology) growth in the surface area of a cell by the deposit of new particles between existing particles in the cell wall
ontogeny: (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

Other hypernyms of intussusception include development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis.

intussusception (noun)	ontogeny (noun)
(biology) growth in the surface area of a cell by the deposit of new particles between existing particles in the cell wall	(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
the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface

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