Allometry

Japanese: allometry
Allometry

…It is a term used to describe the change in form during growth. It originated in DW Thomson's book Growth and Form (1917) and was popularized by JS Huxley of England and G. Teissier of France (1900-72). The former used the term heterogony, and the latter disharmonic growth, but they later unified it into allometry. They independently discovered that the relationship between the sizes x and y of the two parts of a growth system can be empirically expressed by the formula y = bx α . …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "allometry" is listed below.

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Japanese:

…成長における形態の変化を表すもので,D.W.トムソンの著書《生長と形Growth and Form》(1917)に端を発し,イギリスのJ.S.ハクスリーとフランスのテシエG.Teissier(1900‐72)によって一般化された。前者は不等成長heterogony,後者は不調和成長disharmonic growthの語を用いたが,後にアロメトリーallometry(異調律,相対成長)に統一された。成長系の二つの部分の大きさxyの関係は経験的に,ybxαの式で表されることを,両者が独立に見いだした。…

※「allometry」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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