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1860 Proc. Royal Soc. 1859–60 10 220 The intermediate periosteal layer performs the part of an osteogenic stratum.

1867 Quain's Elements Anat. (ed. 7) I. p. cv This soft transparent matter, which becomes ossified, may..be distinguished by the name of ‘osteogenic substance’, as proposed by H. Müller, or simply of ‘osteogen’.

1892 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Osteogenic fibres, the bundles of soft, transparent obscurely fibrillated substance which form the advancing part of the points of growing osseous tissue in membranous ossification.

1892 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Osteogenic substance, the soft transparent material composing the osteogenic fibres.

1951 S. Gilder tr. P. Lacroix Organization Bones xv. 204 Autoplastic grafts of marrow are osteogenic in adult animals as well as in young animals.

1980 Gray's Anat. (ed. 36) iii. 253/1 Later in life the periosteum..consists of flattened, relatively quiescent cells which are, however, still potentially osteogenic.

1989 B. Alberts et al. Molecular Biol. Cell (ed. 2) xvii. 991 (caption) The osteoblasts themselves are thought to derive from osteogenic stem cells that are closely related to fibroblasts.

1923 Edinb. Med. Jrnl. 30 506 This group..has been given the name of ‘osteogenic sarcoma’ owing to their capacity to form new bone trabeculæ.

1975 Nature 29 May 373/3 It was felt that statistical analysis could be based only on that bone tumour type for which solid prognostic data exist, agreed by all to be classical osteogenic sarcoma.

1999 Maclean's 29 Mar. 78/2 Doctors diagnosed him in November with osteogenic sarcoma, the same cancer that killed Terry Fox.