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osteoplastic

American  
[os-tee-uh-plas-tik] / ˌɒs ti əˈplæs tɪk /

adjective

  1. Surgery. pertaining to osteoplasty.

  2. Physiology. pertaining to bone formation.


osteoplastic British  
/ ˌɒstɪəˈplæstɪk /

adjective

  1. of or relating to osteoplasty

  2. of or relating to the formation of bone

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Etymology

Origin of osteoplastic

First recorded in 1860–65; osteo- + -plastic

Example Sentences

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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

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

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 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