Definition of Diploe

1. Noun. (anatomy) The thin layer of soft, spongy or cancellate tissue between the bone plates which constitute the skull. ¹

2. Noun. (dated mostly before 1920) The thin layer of soft, spongy or cancellate tissue between the bone plates which constitute the skull. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Diploe

1. a bony tissue of the cranium [n -S] : DIPLOIC [adj]

Medical Definition of Diploe

1. The soft, spongy, or cancellated substance between the plates of the skull. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. Fold, fr. Twofold, double. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Diploe

diplobacillus
diplobacteria
diplobiontic
diploblastic
diplocardia
diplocardiac
diplocephalus
diplocheiria
diplococcaemia
diplococci
diplococcin
diplococcus
diplocoria
diplodocus
diplodocuses
diploe (current term)
diploes
diploetic
diplogen
diplogenesis
diplogenic
diplogens
diplohaplontic
diploic
diploic canals
diploic vein
diploid nucleus
diploidic
diploidies

Literary usage of Diploe

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1870)
"These are the veins of the diploe: they can only be displayed by removing the outer table of the skull. In adult life, as long as the cranial bones are ..."

2. The Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Body by John Bell, Charles Bell (1829)
"These tables are a little parted from each other*; and this space is filled up with the diploe, or cancelli. The cancelli, or lattice-work, have membranes, ..."

3. A Compend of diagnosis in pathological anatomy: With Directions for Making by Johannes Orth, Reginald Heber Fitz (1878)
"A greenish-yellow or slaty discoloration of the diploe suggests the existence of severe inflammatory affections (as osteomyelitis ..."

4. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1896)
"The skull was much thickened, roughened internally, and devoid of diploe. There were no changes in the facial bones, ribs, sternum, clavicles, ..."

5. A System of surgery: theoretical and practical v.5 by Timothy Holmes (1871)
"... any yen- obvious result, though the disease remained accidental attack of bronchitis, I intended to Lave attempted ;he tumour. he dura mater and diploe. ..."

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