Allometry

2 definitions found

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

  allometry \allometry\ n.
     1. the study of the relative growth of a part of an organism
        in relation to the growth of the whole.
        [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  allometry
       n : study of the relative growth of a part of an organism in
           relation to the growth of the whole