Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Derived from or composed of bone-forming tissue.
  • adjective Of or relating to osteogenesis.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Bone-producing.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Physiol.) Osteogenetic.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective of, or relating to, osteogenesis

Etymologies

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osteo- + -genic

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Examples

  • Kahn's team is focusing on a compound called bone morphogenetic protein 7, or BMP-7, also known as osteogenic protein 1.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • For ALL and osteogenic sarcoma, "there's really no known curative therapy without methotrexate," says Dr.

    News 2012

  • For ALL and osteogenic sarcoma, "there's really no known curative therapy without methotrexate," says Dr.

    News 2012

  • For six decades, it's made the difference between rapid death and lifelong cure for thousands of children with osteogenic sarcoma.

    News 2012

  • For six decades, it's made the difference between rapid death and lifelong cure for thousands of children with osteogenic sarcoma.

    News 2012

  • Using the redox ratio, calculated from the contributions of NAD (P) H and flavoproteins, we identify distinct patterns in the evolution of the metabolic activity of hMSCs maintained in either propagation, osteogenic or adipogenic differentiation media.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles William L. Rice et al. 2010

  • Chen CT, Shih YR, Kuo TK, Lee OK, Wei YH (2008) Coordinated changes of mitochondrial biogenesis and antioxidant enzymes during osteogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles William L. Rice et al. 2010

  • Backesjo CM, Cedervall J, Sugars RV, Ahrlund-Richter L, et al. (2009) Dynamics of gene expression during bone matrix formation in osteogenic cultures derived from human embryonic stem cells in vitro.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles William L. Rice et al. 2010

  • The osteogenic response of undifferentiated human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) to mechanical strain is inversely related to body mass index of the donor.

    SpaceRef Top Stories 2010

  • It was reported that RhoA regulates bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cell (BM-MSC) differentiation into adipogenic and osteogenic lineages

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Tzu-Ching Chang et al. 2010

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