Definition of Histogenesis

1. n. The formation and development of organic tissues; histogeny; -- the opposite of histolysis.

Definition of Histogenesis

1. Noun. (biology) the formation and development of the tissues of an organism from embryonic cells ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Histogenesis

1. [n -GENESES]

Medical Definition of Histogenesis

1. The process of formation of a tissue, involving differentiation, morphogenesis and other processes such as angiogenesis, growth control, cellular infiltration etc. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Histogenesis

histocompatibility antigens
histocompatibility complex
histocompatibility gene
histocompatibility testing
histocompatible
histocyte
histocytochemistry
histocytological preparation techniques
histocytosis
histodifferentiation
histofluorescence
histogen
histogeneses
histogenesis (current term)
histogenetic
histogenic
histogenous
histogens
histogeny
histogram
histogramme
histogrammed
histogrammes
histogramming
histograms
histographer
histographers
histographical

Literary usage of Histogenesis

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

1. A Laboratory manual and text-book of embryology by Charles William Prentiss (1922)
"CHAPTER X histogenesis THE primitive cells of the embryo are alike in structure. ... We shall now take up briefly the histogenesis of the tissues derived ..."

2. Geological Biology: An Introduction to the Geological History of Organisms by Henry Shaler Williams (1895)
"As histogenesis begins with ... as an enlargement of histogenesis, in which the unit is the organic species, and the progress is in terms of specific forms, ..."

3. Anatomy and Histology of the Mouth and Teeth by Isaac Norman Broomell, Philipp Fischelis (1917)
"PART Il.-HISTOLOGY AND histogenesis CHAPTER I General Cytology; General Embryology; and histogenesis The foregoing pages have been devoted to the ..."

4. A Text-book of Pathology by William George MacCallum (1916)
"Chorionic epithelioma; gross appearance, metastasis, histology, ami histogenesis; relation to corpus luteum. GLAND-CELL CARCINOMATA THERE is probably little ..."

5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"... data obtained in his service and to Dr. Kenneth Johnson for aid in tabulating them. THE ANATOMICAL CHANGES AND histogenesis IN GASTRITIS GRANULOMATOSA ..."

6. The Journal of General Physiology by Society of General Physiologists, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1920)
"STUDIES IN THE DYNAMICS OF histogenesis. I. TENSION OF DIFFERENTIAL GROWTH AS A STIMULUS TO MYOGENESIS. BY EBEN J. CAREY. (From the Department of Anatomy, ..."

7. A Text-book of Physiology: Normal and Pathological. For Students and by Winfield Scott Hall (1905)
"Functionally the dermal system is, par excellence, the system of external relations, which fact has a definite relation to the histogenesis, the epiblast ..."

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