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Study of the relative growth of a part of an organism in relation to the growth of the whole
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allometry
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Wiktionary
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n. (context biology English) The science studying the differential growth rates of the parts of a living organism's body part or process.
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Allometry is the study of the relationship of body size to shape , anatomy , physiology and finally behaviour, first outlined by Otto Snell in 1892, by D'Arcy Thompson in 1917 in On Growth and Form and by Julian Huxley in 1932. Allometry is a well-known ...
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allometry \allometry\ n. 1. the study of the relative growth of a part of an organism in relation to the growth of the whole.
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n. study of the relative growth of a part of an organism in relation to the growth of the whole
Usage examples of allometry.
She has also studied allometry and shape change in the skulls of horned dinosaurs using modern morphometric techniques.