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biogen Biol.|ˈbaɪədʒɛn|
Also -gene.
[See bio- and -gen.]
1. (See quot.)
1882E. Coues Biogen (1884) 62 The substance of the soul, to which I apply the name ‘biogen,’ seems to correspond closely to what Prof. Crookes calls the ‘fourth state of matter’;..It is the ‘od’ of Prof. Reichenbach.
2. [G. biogen (M. Verworn 1895, Allgemeine Physiologie vi. 468).] A hypothetical protoplasmic unit. (Cf. biophor.)
1899F. S. Lee tr. Verworn's Gen. Physiol. vi. 481 In order to distinguish this body..from dead proteid and to indicate its high significance in the occurrence of vital phenomena, it appears fitting to replace the term ‘living proteid’ with that of biogen. 1909Westm. Gaz. 23 Oct. 6/3 First, the biogene,..secondly, the cell, composed of a great number of biogenes. 1911Encycl. Brit. XXI. 557/2 These combinations have been termed ‘biogens’. 1915W. M. Bayliss Physiol. i. 18 A certain theory, that of ‘biogen molecules’, has attracted many investigators. 1916A. P. Mathews Physiol. Chem. 261 A molecule which may be called a biogen. Ibid. 844 The biogenes or large molecules of the cell. |