physiogeny

English

Etymology

physio- +‎ -geny

Noun

physiogeny (uncountable)

(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.

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