Associations to the word «Allometry»

Wiktionary

ALLOMETRY, noun. (biology) The science studying the differential growth rates of the parts of a living organism's body part or process.

Dictionary definition

ALLOMETRY, noun. The study of the relative growth of a part of an organism in relation to the growth of the whole.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin