osteal

[ os-tee-uhl ]

adjective

1. osseous.

osteal

/ ˈɒstɪəl /

adjective

1. of or relating to bone or to the skeleton
2. composed of bone; osseous

Word History and Origins

Origin of osteal¹

First recorded in 1875–80; oste- + -al ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of osteal¹

C19: from Greek osteon bone

Example Sentences

As far as my experience has reached, there is no skull displaying the characters of a quadrumanous species, as that series descends from the gorilla and chimpanzee to the baboon, which exhibits differences, osteal or dental, on which specific and generic distinctions are founded, so great, so marked, as are to be seen, and have been above illustrated, in the comparison of the highest ape with the lowest man.

From Project Gutenberg

The industry and pains now devoted to the determination of the physical characters of such races, to their ways of living, their tools and weapons, and to the relations of their dermal, osteal, and dental modifications to those of the mammals which follow next after Bimana in the descensive series of mammalian orders, are exemplary.

From Project Gutenberg