histogenyn.
/hɪˈstɒdʒᵻni/, U.S. /hɪˈstɑdʒəni/ Biology. Now rare.
= histogenesis n.
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1841 R. Dunglison Human Physiol. (ed. 4) I. p. ix The subject of Histogeny or the developement of the tissues, although much cultivated by recent physiologists, belongs perhaps more properly to general anatomy.
1879 tr. E. Haeckel Evol. Man I. iii. 62 Histogeny, or the Science of the Evolution of Tissues, as first elaborated by Remak and by Kolliker.
1918 Internat. Jrnl. Orthodontia 4 417 Dental histogeny is a direction of science that has revealed its mysteries to but few.
2001 Jrnl. Paleontol. 75 1179/1 In turn, euconodont and paraconodont elements are more similar, in terms of histology and histogeny, than either is to protoconodont elements.
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