Definition of Osseously

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Osseously

osseointegrates
osseointegrating
osseointegration
osseomucin
osseomucoid
osseous
osseous ampulla
osseous cell
osseous hydatid cyst
osseous labyrinth
osseous lacuna
osseous part of skeletal system
osseous polyp
osseous spiral lamina
osseous tissue
osseously (current term)
osseter
osseters
ossetra
ossetras
ossi-
ossia
ossianic
ossias
ossicle
ossicles
ossicone
ossicula
ossicula auditus
ossicula mentalia

Literary usage of Osseously

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

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The elbow is osseously strong, but this strength necessarily varies with the position of the arm. The symptoms of a dislocation are distortion and limited ..."

2. Applied Anatomy: Surgical, Medical and Operative by John M'Lachlan (1889)
"In joints whose strength depends on ligaments we are apt to get a " sprain " rather than a dislocation ; while in osseously strong joints the articular ..."

3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The elbow is osseously strong, but this strength necessarily varies with the position of the arm. The symptoms of a dislocation are distortion and limited ..."

4. Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells (1910)
"But if it were willing to confront all these inconveniences, it is intimately, it is osseously, convinced that a house is not cheaper than a flat. ..."

5. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1876)
"I hope to be able at next dressing to apply a permanent apparatus of plaster-of-Paris. The weight will be kept on until the knee is osseously firm. ..."

6. Underground: Or, Life Below the Surface. Incidents and Accidents Beyond the by Thomas Wallace Knox (1876)
"Such a democratic mixture, osseously speaking, of saints and sinners, princes and peasants, reformers and robbers, bishops and beggars, ..."

7. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1884)
"Tibio-femoral impaction secures osseous ankylosis, and prevents relapsing distortion; and is not a human foot at the end of an osseously fixed limb (shorten ..."

8. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1878)
"It is fully half an inch thick in some part and cuts semi-osseously. The other points of interest are the heart and aorta. There is an hypertrophied heart; ..."

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