is a specific kind of: physical process, process.

is a broader term that covers: adaptation, adaption, adjustment | agglutination | ageing, aging, senescence | anovulation | antisepsis, asepsis | absorption, assimilation | autoregulation | bacteriostasis | bloom, blooming | activity, bodily function, bodily process, body process | carbon cycle | catabolism, destructive metabolism, dissimilation, katabolism | cell division, cellular division | crossing over, crossover | defoliation | deossification | digestion | eburnation | ecchymosis | effacement | erythropoiesis | eutrophication | evolution, organic evolution, phylogenesis, phylogeny | expression | extravasation | gastrulation | glycogenesis | development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny | haematogenesis, haematopoiesis, haemogenesis, haemopoiesis, hematogenesis, hematopoiesis, hemogenesis, hemopoiesis, sanguification | heredity | humification | epistasis, hypostasis | implantation, nidation | inhibition | infolding, introversion, intussusception, invagination | involution | cytokinesis | karyokinesis | keratinisation, keratinization | citric acid cycle, Krebs citric acid cycle, Krebs cycle, tricarboxylic acid cycle | lymphopoiesis | lysogenisation, lysogenization | maturation, maturement, ripening | metabolic process, metabolism | metabolism, metamorphosis | nitrogen cycle | nitrogen fixation | nondevelopment | nutrition | organification | ossification | ovulation | oxidative phosphorylation | birth, birthing, giving birth, parturition | pathologic process, pathological process | perennation | preservation | quellung, quellung reaction | quickening | regeneration | regulation | replication | reproduction | reabsorption, resorption | ageing, aging, ripening | secernment, secretion | segregation | shedding, sloughing | summation | symphysis | synapsis | synezesis, synizesis | transcription | transduction | translation | folding, protein folding | translocation | translocation | transpiration | tumefaction | ulceration | vascularisation, vascularization | blistering, vesication, vesiculation ... show more.