OSTEOGEN

Etymology

Noun

osteogen (usually uncountable, plural osteogens)

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

Source: Wiktionary


Os"te*o*gen, n. Etym: [Osteo- + -gen.] (Physiol.)

Definition: The soft tissue, or substance, which, in developing bone, ultimately undergoes ossification.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.

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