osteoid
Americanadjective
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resembling bone; bonelike.
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having a skeleton of bones.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of osteoid
Example Sentences
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The non-mineralized portion of the bone or osteoid continues to form around blood vessels, forming spongy bone.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
The Swartkrans tumor was initially described, in a doctoral thesis, as a benign growth called an osteoid osteoma.
From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2016
Formation of osteoid spreads out the osteoblasts that formed the ossification centers.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
On the other hand, the time to take medication for osteoid arthritis is midday; joints become inflamed with movement, and pain occurs later in the day.
From Time Magazine Archive
Enchondroma may be composed of osteoid tissue, such as is found in the ossifying callous between the bone and the periosteum, and, according to Virchow, then takes the name of osteochondroma.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
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