English edit

Etymology edit

osteo- +‎ -gen

Noun edit

osteogen (usually uncountable, plural osteogens)

  1. (physiology) The soft tissue, or substance, which, in developing bone, ultimately undergoes ossification.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for osteogen”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French ostéogène.

Adjective edit

osteogen m or n (feminine singular osteogenă, masculine plural osteogeni, feminine and neuter plural osteogene)

  1. osteogenic

Declension edit