1890 Cent. Dict. Physiogenetic, same as physiogenic.

1956 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 43 664/2 Antecedent physiogenetic changes beyond present powers of detection are probably of greater importance in the determination of leaf form than apparent structural organization of the apex.

1957 Amer. Midland Naturalist 57 210 Such poorly understood, intrinsic, physio-genetic features of a species as its ability to compete, its ‘toleration’, its innate reproductive potential, etc.

1979 Toxicol. Lett. 4 385 Damage to the morphogenetic or physiogenetic system of the embryo manifests itself in three basic ways.

1925 Lancet 7 Nov. 967/1 The biological, the psychogenetic, and the physiogenetic schools held widely different theories and had each had their period of supremacy.

1950 Science 21 July 100/2 Kan Oguma is director of the institute and head of its Cytogenetic Department.., and Taku Komai heads the Physiogenetic Department.

1963 Jrnl. Exper. Zool. 154 163 (title) Physio-genetic interaction between mammalian blastocyst and endometrium.

1993 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 90 2635/1 The resulting change in the levels of HIR-A and HIR-B RNAs would then reflect a physiogenetic regulatory event that occurs to compensate for a molecular malfunction due to an independent, primary defect.

2004 M. J. Kreek et al. in Neuropharmacology 47 (Suppl. 1) 337/1 We coined the term ‘physiogenetic’ to describe genetically-based differences in physiology (such as responses to neurotransmitters or hormones), as a companion term to ‘pharmacogenetic’.