2. Adjective. (surgery) Of or pertaining to osteoclasis ¹
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Definition of Osteoclastic
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Osteoclastic
1. Pertaining to osteoclasts, especially with reference to their activity in the absorption and removal of osseous tissue. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Osteoclastic
Literary usage of Osteoclastic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Journal of Roentgenology by American Radium Society (1919)
"Fraenkel, von Recklinghausen, and others, have described two types of secondary
bone metastases, the osteoclastic and the osteoplastic. ..."
2. Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA's Standards by Committee on Fluoride in Drinking Water, National Research Council (2006)
"Because these data were derived from intact in vivo animal models, the investigators
could not conclude that the effects of fluoride on osteoclastic bone ..."
3. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1922)
"METASTASES Two types of metastatic carcinoma of the bone are recognized: osteoclastic
and osteo- plastic, the osteoclastic leading to bone ..."
4. Osteoporosis Research, Education and Health Promotion (1993)
"In organ cultures of fetal rat long bones, it inhibits osteoclastic bone resorp-
tion. However, in neonatal mouse calvarial cultures, ..."
5. Collected Papers by the Staff of Saint Mary's Hospital, Mayo Clinic by Saint Marys Hospital (Rochester, Minn.) (1921)
"... the osteoclastic and mixed osteoplastic and osteoclastic types of metastasis
the differentiation should not be difficult, as in these lesions areas of ..."
6. Autoplastic Bone Surgery by Charles Davison, Franklin D. Smith (1916)
"osteoclastic Resorption of the Osseous Matrix.—Kölliker and Jackson believe that
the cells actively resorb the matrix. ..."
7. Chronic Traumatic Osteomyelitis: Its Pathology and Treatment by James Renfrew White (1919)
"... this absorption of the matrix is carried out by the osteoclastic cells which,
prior to their death and destruction, assume an abnormally intensified ..."
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