ontogeny vs amelogenesis

amelogenesis vs ontogeny

ontogeny and amelogenesis both are nouns.

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

As nouns, amelogenesis is a hyponym of ontogeny; that is, amelogenesis is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than ontogeny:

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
amelogenesis: the developmental process of forming tooth enamel

Other hyponyms of ontogeny include culture, angiogenesis, apposition, auxesis, anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, flowering, inflorescence, caenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis, cohesion, cultivation, cytogenesis, cytogeny, foliation, leafing, fructification, gametogenesis, germination, sprouting, habit, infructescence, intussusception, juvenescence, life cycle, masculinisation, masculinization, virilisation, virilization, morphogenesis, myelinisation, myelinization, neurogenesis, palingenesis, recapitulation, proliferation, psychogenesis, psychogenesis, psychomotor development, psychosexual development, rooting, suppression, dentition, odontiasis, teething, teratogenesis, vegetation.

ontogeny (noun)	amelogenesis (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	the developmental process of forming tooth enamel

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