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osteoplastic
[ os-tee-uh-plas-tik ]
adjective
- Surgery. pertaining to osteoplasty.
- Physiology. pertaining to bone formation.
osteoplastic
/ ˌɒstɪəˈplæstɪk /
adjective
- of or relating to osteoplasty
- of or relating to the formation of bone
Word History and Origins
Origin of osteoplastic1
Example Sentences
I shall expose the third left frontal convolution of the brain through the fronto-parietal bone, and, in making the osteoplastic flap, I intend to leave a wide working margin above the size of the opening which may actually be necessary in order to reach the growth.
When the foot has been subjected to laminitis of some weeks' duration, the same condition is also met with, being at the same time associated with rarefactive osteoplastic ostitis, conditions which we shall shortly describe.
The osteoplastic or condensing process that appears to exist simultaneously with it explains, no doubt, how it is that bones so affected do not more commonly fracture.
In other cases, however, the changes in the interior of the bone are accompanied by well-marked lesions on its gliding or postero-inferior surface, and by evidences of an osteoplastic periostitis along its edges.
Along its edges large osteophytic outgrowths speak of the effects of an osteoplastic periostitis.
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