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Definition of Osteoid
1. a. Resembling bone; bonelike.
Definition of Osteoid
1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of bone; bonelike ¹
2. Noun. An organic matrix of protein and polysaccharides, secreted by osteoblasts, that becomes bone after mineralization ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Osteoid
1. uncalcified bone matrix [n -S]
Medical Definition of Osteoid
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Osteoid
Literary usage of Osteoid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1879)
"Pagel,14 indeed, still believes "that the most probable view of the nature of
osteoid cancers would be expressed by calling them ossified fibrous or ..."
2. A Treatise on the Diseases of the Breast and Mammary Region by Alfred Velpeau (1856)
"osteoid, OSSEOUS OR CALCAREOUS TUMOURS.—The mammary region may be the seat of
various osteoid, or calcareous productions. I shall refer again, ..."
3. A System of surgery: theoretical and practical v.5 by Timothy Holmes (1870)
"osteoid cancer, ho1 differs from all these. In a well-marked case the pi tumour
is a mass ... 22, represents the bony eleni a secondary osteoid in the lung ..."
4. Lectures on surgical pathology by James Paget (1865)
"... that a scirrhous or firm medullary cancer may become osteoid; that the colloid
character may be, in some measure, assumed by either of the three chief ..."
5. A Manual for the Practice of Surgery by Thomas Bryant (1881)
"with the disease, though in what is called the true osteoid cancer, masses of
bone of a condensed kind appear in the medulla, and gradually grow until a ..."
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