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Definition of Morphogenesis

1. Noun. Differentiation and growth of the structure of an organism (or a part of an organism).

Definition of Morphogenesis

1. Noun. (biology) The differentiation of tissues and subsequent growth of structures in an organism ¹

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Definition of Morphogenesis

1. [n -GENESES]

Medical Definition of Morphogenesis

1. The process of shape formation: the processes that are responsible for producing the complex shapes of adults from the simple ball of cells that derives from division of the fertilized egg. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Morphogenesis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Science and Philosophy of the Organism: The Gifford Lectures Delivered by Hans Driesch (1908)
"The Internal Elementary Means of morphogenesis We know that all morphogenesis, typical or atypical, primary or secondary, goes on by one morphogenetic ..."

2. The Elementary Principles of General Biology by James Francis Abbott (1914)
"morphogenesis The goal of the reproductive process is the formation of a new individual ... accompanied by growth, to which the name morphogenesis is given. ..."

3. The Anatomy of the human skeleton by Henry Morris, John Ernest Frazer (1914)
"This applies particularly to the earlier embryonic period, which includes the more general phases of morphogenesis. No attempt will be made to describe ..."

4. A Laboratory manual and text-book of embryology by Charles William Prentiss (1922)
"CHAPTER XII THE morphogenesis OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM In discussing the histogenesis of the nervous tissue the early development of the neural tube ..."

5. Contributions by Dept. of Anatomy, University of Minnesota Dept. of Anatomy, University of Minnesota (1916)
"TABLE 1 Terms used by the various investigators for the different parts of the elasmobranch hypophysis MORPHOLOGY AND morphogenesis 1. ..."

6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)
"morphogenesis may be defined as the study which attempts to explain the ... morphogenesis is a subdivision of general physiology, inasmuch as it deals with ..."

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