Term: scale growth
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Name: scale
Synonyms: scales
Definition: Dermal bone that is thin, flexible, and platelike, and that develops in overlapping skinfolds that cover the body and often the head of fish and the bases of the fins.
Ontology: Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0000277]
Name: growth
Synonyms: growth pattern, non-developmental growth
Definition: The increase in size or mass of an entire organism, a part of an organism or a cell.
Ontology: GO: Biological Process [GO:0040007]    QuickGO    AmiGO