Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The formation and development of the organs of living things.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
organogeny .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) The origin and development of organs in animals and plants.
- noun (Biol.) The germ history of the organs and systems of organs, -- a branch of morphogeny.
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- noun biology the
formation anddevelopment of theorgans of anorganism fromembryonic cells
Etymologies
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Examples
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•Kimberly Jung, U.S. Military Academy; home, Los Angeles; majors, mechanical engineering, biological systems; made computational fluid dynamic model of lung organogenesis of rat in utero.
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Through her multifaceted exploration of the integrative biology of nematode development, Mango provides critical insights into the complex process of organogenesis.
Women Scientist win MacArthur "Genius" Fellowships Peggy 2008
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Through her multifaceted exploration of the integrative biology of nematode development, Mango provides critical insights into the complex process of organogenesis.
Archive 2008-09-01 Peggy 2008
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The implications on human fertility and fetal organogenesis are just now being discovered.
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The pharyngula stage/phylotypic stage is the time when Hox gene expression is ordered and active, when organogenesis is ongoing, and when the hallmarks of chordate embryology, like segmental myotomes, a tailbud, and branchial arches are forming.
Jonathan Wells gets everything wrong, again - The Panda's Thumb 2009
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It's early in the first trimester because organogenesis is occurring — when all the organs are being formed.
Anxiety for Two 2008
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After organogenesis takes place first trimester activity, the risk to the fetus from psychiatric treatment is minimal.
Obama backtracks on late-term abortions. Ann Althouse 2008
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These organizational effects functional and structural in response to exposure to low doses of BPA during organogenesis persist into adulthood, long after the period of exposure has ended.
Hippie swag bottles pose significant health risk | Jewschool 2007
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In addition, I think/speculate that it gives at least conceptual clues on how organogenesis is cued/progressed or might even be artificially stimulated, let alone direct pointers to the genes/gene families to look at.
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Vertebrate limbs are classic models in organogenesis, and we know a fair bit about the molecular events involved.
Generic bumps and recycled genetic cascades - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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