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adj. - Relating to or marked by relative growth of a part in relation to an entire organism

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  • In fact, their eyes were somehat larger than would be expected from allometric dropoff in eye size in tetrapods.
  • Professor D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, last of the great Victorian polymaths, author inter alia of the classic allometric study On
  • How in the world can someone understand a paper describing the allometric law relating metabolic rate to body mass unless they understand power law relations,...
  • Substituting into the allometric for - drug dependent.
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