Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to histogeny or histogenesis; relating to the formation of tissue: as, a histogenetic process or result; a histogenetic cell.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Biol.) Tissue-producing; connected with the formation and development of the organic tissues.
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- adjective of, or relating to
histogenesis
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Examples
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His generalisation that two of the germ-layers give rise exclusively or almost exclusively to one kind of tissue excited great interest at the time, and gave the direction to histogenetic research for quite a number of years, though in the end it turned out to be insufficiently founded.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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