morphogenesisn.

1890 Cent. Dict. Morphogenesis.

1893 Amer. Naturalist 27 870 These peculiarities are the same as those possessed by gyroceran, cyrtoceran and often orthoceran shells... The groups, in other words, are parallel in their morphogenesis.

1899 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 469 Factors in morphogenesis.

1936 P. D. F. Murray Bones i. 16 These experiments evidently exclude all functional factors as important agents in primary skeletal morphogenesis.

1951 Nature 18 Aug. 301/2 Isolated terminal growing points..afford excellent material for the investigation of the relation between nutrition and morphogenesis.

1974 Sci. Amer. Dec. 44/3 They [sc. hydras] have a strong capacity for regenerating lost parts, so that one can study morphogenesis not only in developing animals but also in regenerating ones.

1988 L. Stryer Biochem. (ed. 3) xiv. 346 The role of carbohydrates on cell surfaces and of the extracellular matrix in morphogenesis is a fascinating area of inquiry.

1958 Geol. Mag. 95 126 Tricart and Cailleux..claim that a ‘sufficiently dense cover of vegetation’ interferes very significantly with morphogenesis.

1966 J. A. Mabbutt in G. H. Dury Essays in Geomorphol. 102 The hillfoot zone is..very sensitive to climatically-induced changes of morphogenesis.

1989 Raritan Summer 124 This might turn out to be a special phase in the morphogenesis of the earth.

1996 Nature 3 Oct. 386/2 The high-temperature geyserites of hot springs..have recently been shown to be inhabited by microbial biofilms that are apparently essential in the morphogenesis of the geyserite.