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periosteal

  • a word derived from periosteum.
    periosteum
    noun
    the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.

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In the early phase of treatment, the cannabinoids were associated with an increase in the abundance of periosteal bone progenitors, which later develop into specialized bone cells that help bone tissue form.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2023

Here, the osteoblasts form a periosteal collar of compact bone around the cartilage of the diaphysis.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

It is located midsagittally between the meningeal and periosteal layers of the dura mater within the falx cerebri and, at first glance in images or models, can be mistaken for the subarachnoid space.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

Localised tenderness is elicited on pressure, and there is slight swelling, which, however, rarely amounts to what may be described as a periosteal node.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson

The second kind are those which occur in the tertiary stage, and are the immediate precursors of the formation of periosteal nodes.

From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis E. Anstie

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