physiogeny

English

Etymology

physio- +‎ -geny

Noun

physiogeny (uncountable)

1. (biology) The germ history of the functions, or the history of the development of vital activities, in the individual, being one of the branches of ontogeny.
   • 1874, Ernst Haeckel, The Evolution of Man:

     It will, therefore, be the task of a future Physiogeny to grasp the history of the evolution of the functions with the same earnestness

References

• “physiogeny”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.