1851 Dunglison Med. Dict. ,Skeletology,..a treatise on the solid parts of the body.
1876 Ibid. ,Skeletography, a description of the skeleton.
1878 Bell Gegenbaur'sComp. Anat. 427The tissue..which has been called the ‘skeletogenous layer’ or ‘skeletogenous tissue’, on account of its relations to the future skeleton.
1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 634/1The skeletal and blood-containing and -producing tissues in fact form one..continuous whole, which may be called the skeleto-trophic system of tissues.
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