osteoplastic
Americanadjective
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Surgery. pertaining to osteoplasty.
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Physiology. pertaining to bone formation.
adjective
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of or relating to osteoplasty
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of or relating to the formation of bone
Etymology
Origin of osteoplastic
Example Sentences
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Along its edges large osteophytic outgrowths speak of the effects of an osteoplastic periostitis.
From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Reeks, Harry Caulton
The periostitis thus set up invariably takes the osteoplastic form, and as a result of this we have growths of new bone in the near neighbourhood of the joint.
From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Reeks, Harry Caulton
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.
From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Reeks, Harry Caulton
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.
From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Reeks, Harry Caulton
We get, therefore, in many cases, a condition of rarefactive ostitis occurring side by side with a slowly progressive caries within the bone, while outside is occurring an osteoplastic periostitis.
From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Reeks, Harry Caulton
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