(n.) The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone.
(n.) One of the pieces or parts of an animal skeleton; as, a rib or a thigh bone; a bone of the arm or leg; also, any fragment of bony substance. (pl.) The frame or skeleton of the body.
(n.) Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
(n.) Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music.
(n.) Dice.
(n.) Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset.
(n.) Fig.: The framework of anything.
(v. t.) To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery.
(v. t.) To put whalebone into; as, to bone stays.
(v. t.) To fertilize with bone.
(v. t.) To steal; to take possession of.
(v. t.) To sight along an object or set of objects, to see if it or they be level or in line, as in carpentry, masonry, and surveying.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that during exposure to simulated microgravity early signs of osteoporosis occur in the tibial spongiosa and that changes in the spongy matter of tubular bones and vertebrae are similar and systemic.
(2) In conclusion, the efficacy of free tissue transfer in the treatment of osteomyelitis is geared mainly at enabling the surgeon to perform a wide radical debridement of infected and nonviable soft tissue and bone.
(3) This bone could not be degraded by human monocytes in vitro as well as control bone (only 54% of control; P less than 0.003).
(4) It is suggested that the Japanese may have lower trabecular bone mineral density than Caucasians but may also have a lower threshold for fracture of the vertebrae.
(5) Osteoporosis is characterized by a reduction in bone density.
(6) The half-life of 45Ca in the various calcium fractions of both types of bone was 72 hours in both the control and malnourished groups except the calcium complex portion of the long bone of the control group, which was about 100 hours.
(7) We have addressed the effect of late intensification with autologous bone marrow transplantation on SCLC through a randomized clinical trial.
(8) Our results indicate that increasing the delay for more than 8 days following irradiation and TCD syngeneic BMT leads to a rapid loss of the ability to achieve alloengraftment by non-TCD allogeneic bone marrow.
(9) Decreased MU stops additions of bone by modeling and increases removal of bone next to marrow by remodeling.
(10) Pokeweed mitogen-stimulated rat spleen cells were identified as a reliable source of rat burst-promoting activity (PBA), which permitted development of a reproducible assay for rat bone marrow erythroid burst-forming units (BFU-E).
(11) The fibrous matrix and cartilage formed within the nonunion site transformed to osteoid and bone with increased vascularity.
(12) Periosteal chondroma is an uncommon benign cartilagenous lesion, and its importance lies primarily in its characteristic radiographic and pathologic appearance which should be of assistance in the differential diagnosis of eccentric lesions of bones.
(13) The compressive strength of bone is proportional to the square of the apparent density and to the strain rate raised to the 0.06 power.
(14) Furthermore echography revealed a collateral subperiosteal edema and a moderate thickening of extraocular muscles and bone periostitis, a massive swelling of muscles and bone defects in subperiosteal abscesses as well as encapsulated abscesses of the orbit and a concomitant retrobulbar neuritis in orbital cellulitis.
(15) Survival was independent of the type of clinical presentation and protocol employed but was correlated with the stage (P less than 0.0005), symptoms (P less than 0.025), bulky disease (P less than 0.025) and bone marrow involvement (P less than 0.025).
(16) There was however no difference in the cross-sectional studies and no significant deleterious effect detected of tobacco use on forearm bone mineral content.
(17) During the digestion of these radiolabeled bacteria, murine bone marrow macrophages produced low-molecular-weight substances that coeluted chromatographically with the radioactive cell wall marker.
(18) According to the finite element analysis, the design bases of fixed restorations applied in the teeth accompanied with the absorption of the alveolar bone were preferred.
(19) At consolidation, the distraction area was composed of lamellar trabecular and partly woven bone.
(20) Periodontal disease activity is defined clinically by progressive loss of probing attachment and radiographically by progressive loss of alveolar bone.
Osteal
Definition:
(a.) Osseous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three tendencies exist at present in the surgical management of lumbar osteochondrosis: orthopedic treatment aimed at stabilizing the vertebral segment (the procedure of choice being anterior total disectomy with vertebral intercorporal spondilodesis), neurosurgical treatment striving to decompress the nervous structures clinched by the disc, osteal growth, scars, and a combined management achieving both of the above purposes.
(2) However, the oxygen tension diminished steadily in all areas as the microneedle electrode approached the chondro-osteal tissues but PO2 values of 0-10 in the perichondrium.
(3) At the marrow-endocortical bone surface interface, ink exiting from the osteal canals filled the adjacent marrow sinusoids in what appeared as "bush-like" structures.
(4) Data presented in this paper establish the safety and efficacy of use of fibro-osteal integrated blade devices in implant dentistry.
(5) Using the above device and fixation of osteal fragments by brackets with the storage it is possible to overcome all the differences which are observed during osteosynthesis on the condyle process of the lower jaw.
(6) After a brief review of the pathophysiological relationships determined for primary hyperparathyroidism, osteal manifestations of this condition are discussed.
(7) A corollary of these studies might be that if transcapillary exchange is passive, then partition of anions and cations likely lies beyond the capillary and therefore is controlled by osteal cellular processes.
(8) The prosthesis was performed in the first group with 'Palacos R plus gentamicin' (normal viscosity), manufactured by Schering, and in the second group with 'Cerafix genta R' (low viscosity) manufactured by Ceraver-Osteal.
(9) Check-ups carried out in 3, 4, and 8 mos after surgery have shown no osteal joining of the maxillary defect.
(10) RMBF was comparatively assessed in patients with lower jaw fractures under orthopedic therapy of the osteal suture.
(11) Emergency cross clamping of the descending aorta and haemostasis of the bleeding from osteal defects by tamponade with bone polymethyl methacrylate appeared the only way to control the life threatening haemorrhage.
(12) The appearance of ossification in the skin and fibrous dysplasia in the bone would seem to demonstrate a delicate equilibrial balance between fibrous and osteal tissue in organs of a common mesenchymal origin.
(13) No large differences between the various screws were found regarding the measured parameters, so that a small intra-osteal implant such as the Herbert screw and the D.K.S., which can be inserted easily and which gives a certain amount of interfragmentary compression, will be sufficient for osteosynthesis of the scaphoid bone.
(14) In 59 patients, the CO2-laser scanning of the residual osteal bed was used.
(15) This reduced both the rehabilitation terms and complication incidence and improved the cosmetic effect in patients with extensive residual osteal cavities formed during pathological tissues extirpation.
(16) The degree of the changes grown with age, from the serous stage to the purulent one, from unguinal panaritium to osteal panaritium.
(17) The complete normalization of the thyroid function in traumatized animals coincides with osteal regeneration according to time.
(18) A single para osteal injection of an aqueous extract of immature bovine bone doubles the diameter of the rat radius and ulna, within 7 days.
(19) During both examinations X-ray osteal changes as a result of training were found.
(20) Administration of the preparation in a dose up to 2g under an osteal or cutaneous graft induces no side complications and forms a depot of the agent therapeutic concentrations for more than 8 days.