ontogeny vs intussusception

intussusception vs ontogeny

ontogeny and intussusception both are nouns.

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

As nouns, intussusception is a hyponym of ontogeny; that is, intussusception 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
intussusception: (biology) growth in the surface area of a cell by the deposit of new particles between existing particles in the cell wall

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

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