Definition of Allogenic

1. Adjective. Having an external cause, or source; exogenous. ¹

2. Adjective. (geology) Formed in another location and transported. ¹

3. Adjective. (medicine biology genetics) Genetically distinct, but of the same species. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Allogenic

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Allogenic

1. Another term for being genetically dissimilar. Origin: Gr. Gennan = to produce (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Allogenic

alloesthesia
alloform
alloforms
allogamies
allogamous
allogeneic
allogeneic antigen
allogeneic bone marrow transplant
allogeneic graft
allogeneic inhibition
allogeneic transplant
allogeneous
allogenic (current term)
allogotrophia
allograft
allograft immunity
allograft rejection
allografted
allografting
allografts
allograph
allographic
allographs
allogroup
allohexaploid
allohydroxylysine
alloimmune

Literary usage of Allogenic

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

1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1904)
"(») In other words, regression holds for the great bulk of a Mendelian population, but grows gradually less as we treat the matings of nearly pure allogenic ..."

2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria by Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Vic.), Royal Society of Victoria (1897)
"occurs in two distinct forms, of allogenic and 'authigenic origin. The allogenic felspar is present as large phenocrysts which have suffered much erosion ..."

3. The Nomenclature of Petrology: With References to Selected Literature by Arthur Holmes (1920)
"The two contrasting terms, although they are applied to rocks, are thus made to be synonymous with allogenic and authigenic respectively, and as the latter ..."

4. A Treatise on Metamorphism by Charles Richard Van Hise (1904)
"The minerals also are allogenic constituents of the clastic rocks. They further have a very widespread occurrence in the metamorphic rocks, ..."

5. Botanisches Zentralblatt by Botanischer Verein in München, Deutsche Botanische Gesellschaft, Berlin (1904)
"Regression holds for the great bulk of a Mendelian population, but grows gradually less as we treat the mating of nearly pure allogenic parents, ..."

6. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"The chambers were implanted in the anterior abdominal wall of allogenic rabbits (New Zealand) for 21 days. The function of the chambers is to release the ..."

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