(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.
Osteoclasis
Definition:
(n.) The operation of breaking a bone in order to correct deformity.
Example Sentences:
(1) The modern corticotomy has evolved from the initial open osteotomies, which eventually proved to be traumatic to bone's osteogenic elements, and closed bone osteoclasis, which proved time consuming and difficult to control.
(2) The question of osteoblastic osteoclasis falls into this category.
(3) The distractions were performed after both open osteotomy and closed osteoclasis.
(4) The correction of angular deformities of long bones by incomplete osteotomy, followed three weeks later by manual osteoclasis, overcomes the problem of secondary displacement sometimes seen after correction by complete osteotomy and makes internal fixation unnecessary.
(5) Bone loss may be the direct result of mechanical injury, increased osteoclasis, or direct lysis of bone by various enzymes released by the interface membrane.
(6) Eight years ago, axial correction of deformities of the femora and tibiae by manual osteoclasis was carried out in a 7 year old girl in whom osteogenesis imperfecta had produced severe bowing of the long bones of the legs.
(7) In one case, a 15 degree internal rotation deformity was corrected after 5 weeks by osteoclasis and fresh elastic nailing which also healed.
(8) Ultimately, this led to the combination of an open partial subperiosteal cortical osteotomy, followed by manual osteoclasis of the remainder of the bone cortex.
(9) It is concluded that in metaphyseal bone 1,25-(OH)2D3 increased the number and synthetic activity of osteoblasts without significantly enhancing osteoclasis or osteocytic osteolysis.
(10) These findings were interpreted to suggest that PTH mobilizes bone mineral by osteoclasis and increases metabolic activity of the osteocyte-osteoblast pump.
(11) Increased osteoclasis in uremic rats was limited to diaphyseal cortical bone while metaphyseal trabeculae were relatively unaffected compared to sham-operated rats administered vitamin D. Ultrastructurally thyroid C cells were degranulated and in an active stage in both groups of rats receiving vitamin D. Urinary calcium excretion was greater in sham-operated rats given vitamin D than in uremic rats.
(12) As there was no elevation of the osteoblastic activity in knee joints with developing osteoarthrosis, it would appear that bone sclerosis associated with the disease was due to decreased osteoclasis.
(13) Modes and surgical treatment include osteoclasis and percutaneous pinning for long-bone deformities in the infant and, in the child older than two years of age, segmentation and the use of telescoping rods.
(14) An excess of bone surfaces were covered by osteoid seams, all of which showed active mineralisation, indicating a relative increase in osteoblastic activity; osteoclasis seemed to be unaffected.
(15) In rats given 5 units of 1,25-(OH)2D3, osteoclasis was markedly increased.
(16) Eight of fourteen patients elected some form of surgical revision, most commonly closed osteoclasis with restoration of femoral length, followed by the insertion of a statically locked nail.
(17) The results accord with hypotheses that (1) osteoclasis of scaffoldtype woven bone is impaired in mi mi, (2) that osteoclastic cells are derived through circulating monocytes from hematopoietic stem cells, and (3) in mi mi this defect can be overcome by a transplant of normal hemopoietic stem cells.