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Definition of Osteoblasts
1. osteoblast [n] - See also: osteoblast
Medical Definition of Osteoblasts
1. Cells that arise from fibroblasts and which, as they mature, are associated with the production of bone. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Osteoblasts
Literary usage of Osteoblasts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Osteoporosis Research, Education and Health Promotion (1993)
"osteoblasts originate from resident osteoprogenitor cells. ... osteoblasts respond
to a number of growth factors and hormones that are believed to play a ..."
2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"This layer of osteoblasts form a bony stratum, and thus the wall of the space
becomes ... On this a second layer of osteoblasts arrange themselves, ..."
3. The Newer Physiology in Surgical and General Practice by Arthur J. Rendle Short (1916)
"Bone is laid down by certain cells called osteoblasts. In young animals, these
are the direct descendants of cartilage cells. When the cartilage becomes ..."
4. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1874)
"osteoblasts, as is generally maintained, among others by Ludwig Stieda, in an
excellent monograph on the development of bone, proceed from this ..."
5. Human Osteology: Comprising a Description of the Bones with Delineations of by Luther Holden, James Shuter (1885)
"Under a high power the rays of bone can be seen covered with layers of osteoblasts,
which successively ossify, and thus the trabeculae grow in thickness. ..."
6. A Manual of Histology by Salomon Stricker (1872)
"have just described, there follows a third layer c, which contains large granular
cells exactly comparable to the above-mentioned osteoblasts, and forms au ..."
7. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Allen Thomson, George Dancer Thane (1882)
"onversion of the protoplasm of some of the osteoblasts into bony tissue. ...
There should moreover often be observed osteoblasts which ire only partly ..."
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