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Let \(w:[0,2b]\to {\mathbb{R}_{+}}\) be a continuous nondecreasing function such that \(w(0) = 0, w(r) > 0\) for \(r > 0\) and \(\int_{0+}{dr1\over{\root m \of {r^{m-1}w(r)}}}\) is equal to \(+\infty.\) The essential result of the paper is the following: If \(w\) is a function as above and \(g:[0,c] \to {[0,2b]}\) is a function satisfying the inequalities \(g^{(j)}(t) \geq 0\), \(j=0,1,\dots,m \), \(g^{(j)}(0) = 0\), \(j = 0,1,\dots,m \) and \(g^{(m)}(t) \leq{w(g(t))}\), \(t\in[0,c) \) then \(g=0\). Next, the author applies this theorem to obtain existence results for ordinary differential equations of the form \(x^{(m)}=f(t,x) \), \(t \in[0,c]\), where the function \(f\) satisfies the \(\alpha\)-Osgood condition \(\alpha(f(t,X))\leq{w(\alpha(X))}\), with \(\alpha\) being the measure of noncompactness. Some generalizations of the main theorem are provided.