Organ or Tissue Function
osteogenesis Audio
os·te·o·gen·e·sis [ os-tee-uh-jen-uh-sis ]
Subclass of:
Bone Development
Etymology:
Greek osteon = bone + genesis = production or creation
Definitions related to osteogenesis:
  • Production of bone; histogenesis of bone including ossification; do not confuse with the growth and development of bone, BONE DEVELOPMENT.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • (ossification) The formation of bone or of a bony substance, or the conversion of fibrous tissue or of cartilage into bone or a bony substance.
    Gene Ontology Dictionary
    Gene Ontology Consortium, 2021
  • (ossification) The formation of bone or of a bony substance; the conversion of fibrous tissue or of cartilage into bone or a bony substance.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • (ossification) The process by which bone is formed.
    Harvard Dictionary of Health Terms
    Harvard Medical Publishing, 2011
  • The process of bone formation. Histogenesis of bone including ossification.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • Bone formation, process by which new bone is produced. Ossification begins about the third month of fetal life in humans and is completed by late adolescence. The process takes two general forms, one for compact bone, which makes up roughly 80 percent of the skeleton, and the other for cancellous...
    Encyclopedia Britannica
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2025
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