(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.
Osteoplastic
Definition:
(a.) Producing bone; as, osteoplastic cells.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the replacement of bone; as, an osteoplastic operation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Massive osteoplastic bone tumor in hepatocellular carcinoma is very rare.
(2) The types of metastasis expansion in the bones were determined radiologically: the most frequent--osteolytic, less frequent--mixed, and the osteoplastic type (prostate cancer, gall-bladder cancer, and pancreas cancer).
(3) Biopsy was performed in seven patients harbouring osteolytic and osteoplastic lesions of the cervical (3 cases), thoracic (3 cases) and lumbar spine (1 case).
(4) During osteoplastic surgery of the maxillary sinus routinely performed by the author in more than 700 cases since 1973 a piece of bone (the "Bone Lid") including the attached mucosa is cut out of the anterior wall of the maxillary sinus in such a fashion that it serves perfectly to close the opening again as a free graft at the end of the operation.
(5) Unpleasant symptoms such as facial neuralgia and discomfort, were reduced to half after osteoplastic reconstruction of the anterior wall of the maxillary sinus.
(6) Only complete opening combined with complete reconstruction serves really eradicating the pathology completely as well as full reconstruction of the middle ear and the external canal; this means osteoplastic epitympanotomy.
(7) The method of choice for the treatment was the osteoplastic trepanation with a removal of the haematoma.
(8) Surgically, we preferred the transethmoidal route and in some cases the lateral osteoplastic approach.
(9) Nasofrontal duct reconstruction offers more direct access to the ethmoid cell system than osteoplastic flap obliteration.
(10) A rare but distressing complication of frontal embossment was managed after osteoplastic flap surgery.
(11) Patients were treated with a variety of procedures including cranialization (42%), osteoplastic flap and fat obliteration (30%), open reduction and internal fixation of the anterior wall (20%), osteoplastic flap and sinus ablation (6%), and intersinus septectomy (1%).
(12) Osteoplastic trephination and encephalotomy is the principal surgical method.
(13) Surgical interference within the blood supply to the inner ear was responsible for metaplastic bone, and damage to the endosteum by surgery or disease caused osteoplastic bone.
(14) Treatments of PA-III-affected bones with Cl2MDP and x-rays immobilized both osteolytic and osteoplastic processes.
(15) The operative approach and findings of 250 osteoplastic frontal sinusotomy operations performed from 1956 through 1972 at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary are reviewed.
(16) This is a report on two cases of an extensive absorption of bone following reimplantation of an osteoplastic flap of the cranial vault.
(17) Those identified as producing mechanical complications clinically, or a 'hot' bone scan by radionuclide study, were regarded as appropriate for osteoplastic frontal sinusectomy for removal of the osteoma; three cases were approached in this way.
(18) Resection trepanation of the skull was carried out in 55 patients, osteoplastic in 23.
(19) Histologically, the tumor was composed of hepatocellular carcinoma, cholangiocarcinoma, and sarcomatous portions, including spindle-shaped, pleomorphic, and osteoplastic varieties.
(20) In the osteoplastic approach the superior and posterior segment of the ear canal wall is temporarily removed.