blastogeny

English

Etymology 1

From blasto- (“growth”) +‎ -geny (“origin”).

Noun

blastogeny (usually uncountable, plural blastogenies)

  1. (dated) Blastogenesis.

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from German Blastogenie, itself from blasto- +‎ -genie; equivalent to blasto- (“biological organs”) +‎ -geny (“origin”).

Noun

blastogeny (usually uncountable, plural blastogenies)

  1. (historical, biology, theory of recapitulation, rare) The study of the evolution of the forms of entire individuals by observing the supposed ontogenic recapitulation of that phylogeny.[1]
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References

  1. ^ Ernst Haeckel (1874), “Das Grundgesetz der organischen Entwickelung” (chapter I), in Anthropogenie; oder, Entwickelungsgeschichte des Menschen. Gemeinverständliche wissenschaftliche Vorträge über die Grundzüge der Menschlichen. Keimes- und Stammes-geschichte, volume 1, page 18; translated as “The Fundamental Law of the Evolution of Organisms”, in The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human Ontogeny and Phylogeny. From the German of Ernst Haeckel., 1897, page 24.
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