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Definition of Osteogen
1. n. The soft tissue, or substance, which, in developing bone, ultimately undergoes ossification.
Definition of Osteogen
1. Noun. (physiology) The soft tissue, or substance, which, in developing bone, ultimately undergoes ossification. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Osteogen
1. a substance from which bone is formed [n -S]
Medical Definition of Osteogen
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Osteogen
Literary usage of Osteogen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science; Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1874)
"Those forms of osteitis which are attended with j The original formation of bone,
softening of the bone substance, have been called ' osteogen'ic Snb'stance ..."
2. A Complete pronouncing medical dictionary by Joseph Thomas (1885)
"Os-te-o-ge-netl-cus.* Bone-generating ; belonging to osteogenesis. Os-te-o-gen'ic.
[Lat. osteogen'icus. ... osteogen'esis ..."
3. Lippincott's Medical dictionary: A Complete Vocabulary of the Terms Used in by Ryland W. Greene, Joseph Thomas (1906)
"osteogen (os'ti-oj«n). [See osteogenESIS.] The material of which the osteogenic
fibres of the periosteum are composed. ..."
4. Handbook of Physiology by William Dobinson Halliburton (1913)
"... they are composed of a soft, transparent substance called osteogen, around
and between which calcareous granules are deposited. ..."
5. Practice of Medicine by Frederick Tice (1921)
"Infantile myxedema may be confused with dwarfism, Mongolian idiocy, rickets,
achondroplasia, congenital adiposity, osteogen- esis imperfecta, ..."
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