(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.
Osteotome
Definition:
(n.) Strong nippers or a chisel for dividing bone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Progress in orthognathic surgery as well as the special methods now available for proper setting of osteotomic segments, diagnostic aids and therapeutic possibilities of orthodontics have considerably strengthened the case today for giving adults a combined treatment.
(2) The wire functioned as a spindle along which the distraction of the osteotomized bone fragments was continued.
(3) Shortening of the osteotomized clavicle by only 1 cm leads to an increase of these forces by about 40%.
(4) Unphysiological elongation of the calcaneus tendon was performed by distraction of the osteotomized lower leg with the aid of an external minifixator.
(5) This condition can be corrected by osteotomizing the lateral malleolus and restoring the integrity of the distal tibiofibular joint by pulling the lateral malleolus distally and internally rotating it.
(6) Total regeneration of an osteotomized fibula is rarely reported in the literature.
(7) Clinical and histological tests were made in five minipigs to study the hitherto unknown tissue behaviour of the receiver organism to unilaterally uncovered perforated ceramic implants in the bilaterally osteotomized facial maxillary sinus wall.
(8) The authors propose to stimulate distraction osteogenesis by means of implanting bone matrix both into the resection area after removing the suppurative necrotic focus and into the region of the osteotomized fragment.
(9) Six osteotomized patients had troublesome abductor weakness secondary to wire breakage and proximal migration of the trochanter.
(10) With this method, the ascending ramus is osteotomized vertically from an extra-oral incision.
(11) For the three parameters considered, the mean percentage differences between the osteotomized plated bones and their paired-sham-operated controls were 69, 64 and 80 per cent, respectively.
(12) Internal fixation of the osteotomized radial bones was accomplished with small right-angled T plates, and the limbs were placed in full-limb casts for 3 weeks and tube casts for 3 more weeks.
(13) The most likely explanation for the complication is a transmittal of force from the osteotome used to fracture through the pterygoid plates extending superiorly through the medial surface of the cavernous sinus.
(14) In this method the osteotomized bones and their intact contralateral controls are tested in nondestructive bending, in twenty-four planes of loading at 15 degree angular increments.
(15) Significant necrosis is unlikely to occur if a surgeon follows the basic principle of stripping the minimal amount of mucoperiosteum and muscle attachment from the osteotomized segments commensurate with the successful completion of the osteotomies.
(16) Forty preserved human cadaveric radii were randomized into osteotomized (20) and nonosteotomized (20) groups.
(17) The length of bone that can be removed is 25 cm; the bone may be osteotomized in 2 to 4 fragments retaining their vitality.
(18) A study is presented in which transversely osteotomized rabbit tibiae were allowed to heal for 3 to 8 weeks.
(19) However, the exposure is less wide than when the greater trochanter is osteotomized and likelihood of technical error is increased.
(20) Significant reduction in blood flow to the osteotomized maxillary segment was noted in those animals (group S) where the descending palatine vessels were transected.