promorphology
noun
- the study of the organization of the egg especially with reference to localization of subsequently developed embryonic structures
- the science of the fundamental morphology of organisms, which aims to describe in mathematical terms the stereometry and symmetries of organic forms; the features of organisms so studied. Now chiefly historical
Wiktionary
noun
Etymology: From pro- + morphology.
- crystallography of organic forms; a division of morphology relating to a mathematical conception of organic forms