Tectology

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tectology \Tec*tol"o*gy\, n. [Gr. ? a carpenter + -logy.]
     (Biol.)
     A division of morphology created by Haeckel; the science of
     organic individuality constituting the purely structural
     portion of morphology, in which the organism is regarded as
     composed of organic individuals of different orders, each


     organ being considered an individual. See {Promorphology},
     and {Morphon}.
     [1913 Webster]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  19 Moby Thesaurus words for "tectology":
     anatomist, anatomy, angiography, angiology, anthropotomy,
     geomorphology, histologist, histology, morphologist, morphology,
     myography, myology, organography, organology, osteography,
     osteology, splanchnography, splanchnology, zootomy