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1858 Brit. Jrnl. Dental Sci. 2 41/2 These elements..appear identical with the same elements so abundant in the fœtus in the very early periods of gestation; whence they have been also called ‘embryo-plastic’.

1867 N.Y. Med. Jrnl. Jan. 249 There is an early period of fœtal life, previous to the formation of connective tissue, in which we find only embryo-plastic nuclei and fusiform bodies in amorphous matter. This is called embryo-plastic tissue.

1940 Jrnl. Pediatrics 16 483 Since seemingly little progress has been made during the centuries in our etiological conception of embryoplastic deformities, the actual causal agency of this retardation of the lower jaw remains obscure.