Words that rhyme with phylogenesis

• anthropogenesis 0
  n 1: the evolution or genesis of the human race [syn: anthropogenesis, anthropogeny]
• biogenesis 0
  n 1: production of a chemical compound by a living organism [syn: biosynthesis, biogenesis] 2: the production of living organisms from other living organisms [syn: biogenesis, biogeny]
• monogenesis 0
  n 1: asexual reproduction by the production and release of spores [syn: monogenesis, sporulation]
• ontogenesis 0
  n 1: (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children" [syn: growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis] [ant: nondevelopment]
• parthenogenesis 0
  n 1: human conception without fertilization by a man [syn: parthenogenesis, parthenogeny, virgin birth] 2: process in which an unfertilized egg develops into a new individual; common among insects and some other arthropods [syn: parthenogenesis, parthenogeny]
• pathogenesis 0
  n 1: the origination and development of a disease
• psychogenesis 0
  n 1: the development in the life of an individual of some disorder that is caused by psychological rather than physiological factors 2: a general term for the origin and development of almost any aspect of the mind
• spermatogenesis 0
  n 1: development of spermatozoa
• epigenesis 0
  n 1: a geological change in the mineral content of rock after the rock has formed
• glycogenesis 0
  n 1: the formation in animals of glycogen from glucose 2: the conversion of glucose to glycogen when the glucose in the blood exceeds the demand
• hypnogenesis 0
  n 1: the induction of sleep or hypnosis
• metagenesis 0
  n 1: alternation of sexual and asexual generations [syn: metagenesis, digenesis]
• oogenesis 0
  n 1: development of ova
• palingenesis 0
  n 1: emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species [syn: palingenesis, recapitulation] [ant: caenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis]
• agamogenesis 0
  n 1: reproduction without the fusion of gametes [syn: asexual reproduction, agamogenesis]
• neurogenesis 0
  n 1: the development of nerve tissues
• ectasis 0
  n 1: dilatation or distension of a hollow organ [syn: ectasia, ectasis]
• myiasis 0
  n 1: infestation of the body by the larvae of flies (usually through a wound or other opening) or any disease resulting from such infestation
• pertussis 0
  n 1: a disease of the respiratory mucous membrane [syn: whooping cough, pertussis]
• salmacis 0
  n 1: nymph who merged with Hermaphroditus to form one body
• atelectasis 0
  n 1: collapse of an expanded lung (especially in infants); also failure of pulmonary alveoli to expand at birth
• diastasis 0
  n 1: separation of an epiphysis from the long bone to which it is normally attached without fracture of the bone
• epistasis 0
  n 1: the suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene [syn: hypostasis, epistasis]
• assists 0
• carcinogenesis 0
• consists 0
• cysts 0
• enlists 0
• exists 0
• fists 0
• insists 0
• lists 0
• persists 0
• resists 0
• twists 0
• wrists 0
• wyss 0
• fariss 0
• furniss 0
• biss 0
• preexists 0
• regenesis 0
• syngenesis 0
• diagenesis 0
• endogenesis 0
• histogenesis 0
• mythogenesis 0
• orogenesis 0
• orthogenesis 0
• petrogenesis 0
• phytogenesis 0
• polygenesis 0
• sporogenesis 0
• osteogenesis 0
• catabasis 0
• katabasis 0
• parabasis 0
• telesis 0
• anastasis 0
• cytoclasis 0
• diaplasis 0

See also phylogenesis definition and phylogenesis synonyms