| morphon | <biology> A morphological individual, characterised by definiteness of form bion, a physiological individual. See Tectology. Of morphons there are six orders or categories: 1. Plastids or elementary organisms. 2. Organs, homoplastic or heteroplastic. 3. Antimeres (opposite or symmetrical or homotypic parts). 4. Metameres (successive or homodynamous parts). 5. Personae (shoots or buds of plants, individuals in the narrowest sense among the higher animals). 6. Corms (stocks or colonies). For orders 2, 3, and 4 the term idorgan has been recently substituted. See Idorgan. Origin: Gr, p.pr. Of to form. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| morphonomy | <biology> The laws of organic formation. Origin: Gr. Form + a law. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| morphophyly | <biology> The tribal history of forms; that part of phylogeny which treats of the tribal history of forms, in distinction from the tribal history of functions. Origin: Gr. Form + a clan. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| morphophysiology | Anatomy studied in its relation to function. Synonym: morphophysiology, physiological anatomy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| morphosis | <biology> The order or mode of development of an organ or part. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. Form, fr. Form. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| morphosynthesis | An awareness of space and of body schema represented in the parietal lobes of the cerebral cortex. Origin: morpho-+ synthesis (05 Mar 2000) |
| morphotic | <physiology> Connected with, or becoming an integral part of, a living unit or of the morphological framework; as, morphotic, or tissue, proteids. Origin: Gr. Fit for forming. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| morphotype | An infrasubspecific group of bacterial strains distinguishable from other strains of the same species on the basis of morphologic characters which may or may not be associated with a change in serologic state. Origin: morpho-+ G. Typos, stamp, model (05 Mar 2000) |