| metacyesis | (noun) pregnancy resulting from gestation elsewhere than in the uterus | Synonyms: eccyesis, ectopic gestation, ectopic pregnancy, extrauterine gestation, extrauterine pregnancy |
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| metagenesis | (noun) alternation of sexual and asexual generations | Synonyms: digenesis |
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| metathesis | (noun) a chemical reaction between two compounds in which parts of each are interchanged to form two new compounds (AB+CD=AD+CB) | Synonyms: double decomposition, double decomposition reaction |
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| (noun) a linguistic process of transposition of sounds or syllables within a word or words within a sentence | - |
| mimesis | (noun) the imitative representation of nature and human behavior in art and literature | - |
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| (noun) the representation of another person's words in a speech | - |
| (noun) any disease that shows symptoms characteristic of another disease | - |
| monogenesis | (noun) asexual reproduction by the production and release of spores | Synonyms: sporulation |
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| morphogenesis | (noun) differentiation and growth of the structure of an organism (or a part of an organism) | - |
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| mutagenesis | (noun) an event capable of causing a mutation | - |
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| natriuresis | (noun) the presence of abnormally large amounts of sodium in the urine | - |
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| nemesis | (noun) something causing misery or death | Synonyms: bane, curse, scourge |
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| neurogenesis | (noun) the development of nerve tissues | - |
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| noesis | (noun) the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning | Synonyms: cognition, knowledge |
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| nucleosynthesis | (noun) (astronomy) the cosmic synthesis of atoms more complex than the hydrogen atom | - |
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| ontogenesis | (noun) (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level | Synonyms: development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogeny |
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| oogenesis | (noun) development of ova | - |
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| palingenesis | (noun) emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species | Synonyms: recapitulation |
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| paracentesis | (noun) centesis of the belly to remove fluid for diagnosis | Synonyms: abdominocentesis |
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| paraparesis | (noun) a slight paralysis or weakness of both legs | - |
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| parenesis | (noun) (rhetoric) exhortation; admonition. | - |
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| parenthesis | (noun) either of two punctuation marks (or) used to enclose textual material | - |
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| (noun) a message that departs from the main subject | Synonyms: aside, digression, divagation, excursus |
| paresis | (noun) a slight or partial paralysis | - |
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| parthenogenesis | (noun) process in which an unfertilized egg develops into a new individual; common among insects and some other arthropods | Synonyms: parthenogeny |
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| (noun) human conception without fertilization by a man | Synonyms: parthenogeny, virgin birth |
| pathogenesis | (noun) the origination and development of a disease | - |
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| pedesis | (noun) the random motion of small particles suspended in a gas or liquid | Synonyms: Brownian motion, Brownian movement |
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| pheresis | (noun) a procedure in which blood is drawn and separated into its components by dialysis; some are retained and the rest are returned to the donor by transfusion | Synonyms: apheresis |
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| photosynthesis | (noun) synthesis of compounds with the aid of radiant energy (especially in plants) | - |
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| phylogenesis | (noun) (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms | Synonyms: evolution, organic evolution, phylogeny |
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| plasmapheresis | (noun) plasma is separated from whole blood and the rest is returned to the donor | - |
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| plateletpheresis | (noun) platelets are separated from whole blood and the rest is returned to the donor | - |
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| prosthesis | (noun) corrective consisting of a replacement for a part of the body | Synonyms: prosthetic device |
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| pseudocyesis | (noun) physiological state in which a woman exhibits symptoms of pregnancy but is not pregnant | Synonyms: false pregnancy |
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| psychogenesis | (noun) a general term for the origin and development of almost any aspect of the mind | - |
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| (noun) the development in the life of an individual of some disorder that is caused by psychological rather than physiological factors | - |
| psychokinesis | (noun) the power to move something by thinking about it without the application of physical force | Synonyms: telekinesis |
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| somaesthesis | (noun) the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs | Synonyms: somaesthesia, somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia, somesthesis |
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| somataesthesis | (noun) the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs | Synonyms: somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia, somesthesis |
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| somesthesis | (noun) the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs | Synonyms: somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia |
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| spermatogenesis | (noun) development of spermatozoa | - |
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| spondylolisthesis | (noun) a forward dislocation of one vertebra over the one beneath it producing pressure on spinal nerves | - |
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| synaeresis | (noun) the separation of liquid from a gel that is caused by contraction (as in cheese making) | Synonyms: syneresis |
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| (noun) the contraction of two vowels into a diphthong | Synonyms: syneresis |
| syneresis | (noun) the separation of liquid from a gel that is caused by contraction (as in cheese making) | Synonyms: synaeresis |
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| (noun) the contraction of two vowels into a diphthong | Synonyms: synaeresis |
| synezesis | (noun) the contraction of chromatin towards one side of the nucleus during the prophase of meiosis | Synonyms: synizesis |
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| synizesis | (noun) the contraction of chromatin towards one side of the nucleus during the prophase of meiosis | Synonyms: synezesis |
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| synthesis | (noun) the combination of ideas into a complex whole | Synonyms: synthetic thinking |
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| (noun) reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect) | Synonyms: deduction, deductive reasoning |
| (noun) the process of producing a chemical compound (usually by the union of simpler chemical compounds) | - |
| telekinesis | (noun) the power to move something by thinking about it without the application of physical force | Synonyms: psychokinesis |
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| teratogenesis | (noun) the development of defects in an embryo | - |
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| thesis | (noun) an unproved statement put forward as a premise in an argument | - |
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| (noun) a treatise advancing a new point of view resulting from research; usually a requirement for an advanced academic degree | Synonyms: dissertation |
| thoracentesis | (noun) removal of fluid from the chest by centesis for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes | Synonyms: thoracocentesis |
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| thoracocentesis | (noun) removal of fluid from the chest by centesis for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes | Synonyms: thoracentesis |
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| xenogenesis | (noun) the alternation of two or more different forms in the life cycle of a plant or animal | Synonyms: alternation of generations, heterogenesis |
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