Causation and Formation

CAUSATION AND FORMATION

These words refer to causation, formation, origination, production, growth, development or generation. While this might seem like a pretty broad category, all of the words in the list derive from the single Greek word genesis, which can have all of the above meanings. Of course, Genesis is also the name of the first book of the Bible, in which the causation, origin and development of the world is described.

ABIOGENESIS — spontaneous generation of living matter

ALLERGENIC — producing allergies

ANTHROPOGENESIS — origin of human beings

CARCINOGENESIS — causing cancer

COSMOGENIC — produced by interaction of cosmic rays with earth's surface

CRYPTOGENIC — of unknown origin

CYTOGENESIS — formation of cells

EMBRYOGENESIS — production of an embryo

ENDOGENOUS — having no external cause

ETHNOGENY — study of origins of races or ethnic groups

EXOGENOUS — having an external origin

HAEMATOGENESIS — production of blood

HALLUCINOGENIC — causing hallucinations

HETEROGENESIS — spontaneous or alternate generation

HYPOALLERGENIC — causing few allergies

IATROGENIC — induced inadvertently by medical treatment

IMMUNOGENIC — producing an immune response

LACTOGENIC — producing milk

MEROGENESIS — segmentation

MYOGENIC — having a muscular origin

NONPATHOGENIC — not causing disease

NOOGENESIS — evolution of the mind

ONTOGENESIS — origin and development of a single individual organism

OOGENESIS — production of eggs or ova

PHYTOGENESIS — origin and development of plants

PROTOGENIC — formed at the beginning

PSYCHOGENESIS — origin and development of the mind

RADIOGENIC — produced by radioactive disintegration

SCHIZOGENESIS — reproduction by division

SOLIGENOUS — produced by the sun

THAUMATOGENY — doctrine of the miraculous origin of life

VIRRIDIGENOUS — producing greenness

YLOGENOUS — growing on wood