Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The theory that inherited characteristics are transmitted from parent to offspring by germ plasm.
- n. Reproduction of an organism by budding.
- n. The transformation of small lymphocytes into larger cells that are capable of undergoing mitosis.
- n. The development of an embryo during cleavage and germ layer formation.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In biology, reproduction by gemmation or budding.
Wiktionary
- n. biology reproduction via budding
- n. biology The transformation of small lymphocytes into larger, undifferentiated cells that undergo mitosis
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Biol.) Multiplication or increase by gemmation or budding.
WordNet 3.0
- n. theory that inherited characteristics are transmitted by germ plasm
- n. asexual reproduction by budding
Etymologies
- blasto- + -genesis (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Another key finding was that intervention patients showed higher levels of three key markers of immune system function after 12 months: natural killer cell cytotoxicity and Con A and PHA blastogenesis.”
“Virus-specific cellular blastogenesis interleukin-2 production pig recovery African pig fever”
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