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
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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 Harry Caulton Reeks
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 Harry Caulton Reeks
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 Harry Caulton Reeks
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.
From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Harry Caulton Reeks
Along its edges large osteophytic outgrowths speak of the effects of an osteoplastic periostitis.
From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Harry Caulton Reeks
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