allometry

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

allometry
    n 1: the study of the relative growth of a part of an organism
         in relation to the growth of the whole

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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]

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