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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Gr.

ἱστόσ

tissue + E.

genesis

(Biol.)

(a)

The formation and development of organic tissues; histogeny; – the opposite of histolysis.

(b)

Germ history of cells, and of the tissues composed of cells.

Haeckel.

histogenesis ‎(countable and uncountable, plural histogeneses)

formation and development of the tissues of an organism from embryonic cells