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Definition of Ossein
1. n. The organic basis of bone tissue; the residue after removal of the mineral matters from bone by dilute acid; in embryonic tissue, the substance in which the mineral salts are deposited to form bone; -- called also ostein. Chemically it is the same as collagen.
Definition of Ossein
1. Noun. (biochemistry) The collagen component of bone. ¹
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Definition of Ossein
1. a protein substance in bone [n -S]
Medical Definition of Ossein
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ossein
Literary usage of Ossein
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1871)
"Ossein thus obtained still contains traces of ash and small quantities of
bloodvessels, which remain undissolved on treating it with boiling water. horns, ..."
2. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1867)
"... analysis of ossein is probably too low, for the same chemist found in it upon
another occasion as much as I7'86 per cent, of nitrogen. ..."
3. A Manual of Histology by Thomas Edward Satterthwaite (1881)
"The dense organic substance forming the groundwork of all bone—ossein —is in
reality nothing but a form of connective substance almost precisely resembling ..."
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