teratogenesis vs ontogeny

teratogenesis and ontogeny both are nouns.

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

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

teratogenesis: the development of defects in an embryo
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 teratogenesis include development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis.

teratogenesis (noun)	ontogeny (noun)
the development of defects in an embryo	(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