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Definition of Periosteum
1. Noun. A dense fibrous membrane covering the surface of bones (except at their extremities) and serving as an attachment for tendons and muscles; contains nerves and blood vessels that nourish the enclosed bone.
Definition of Periosteum
1. n. The membrane of fibrous connective tissue which closely invests all bones except at the articular surfaces.
Definition of Periosteum
1. Noun. A membrane surrounding a bone. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Periosteum
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Medical Definition of Periosteum
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Periosteum
Literary usage of Periosteum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Clinical Rheumatology: A Problem-oriented Approach to Diagnosis and Management by Roland W. Moskowitz (1921)
"periosteum.1 Definition.—The periosteum is the formative and protective membrane
which ... All periosteum has certain structural characteristics in common, ..."
2. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1915)
"3 periosteum and muscles retracted; electric saw used to cut through the bases
... Transplant with free border covered by periosteum is inserted between cut ..."
3. Anatomy, descriptive and surgical by Henry Gray (1864)
"Nerves are distributed freely to the periosteum, and accompany the nutritious
arteries ... periosteum. The bones are covered by a tough fibrous membrane, ..."
4. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"Bone during life is permeated by vessels, and is enclosed, except where it is
coated with articular cartilage, in a fibrous membrane, the periosteum, ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1859)
"The periosteum was thus, in the first place, isolated from all the ... The strip
of periosteum which it was desired to detach was then marked ont with the ..."
6. General Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics, in Fifty Lectures: A Textbook by Theodor Billroth (1880)
"I must here remark that this represents only a part of the periosteum that is
... Upon this just described inner layer of the periosteum lies, ..."
7. The Science and Art of Surgery: A Treatise on Surgical Injuries, Diseases by John Eric Erichsen (1885)
"Thus inflammation commencing in the periosteum, if it last for any length of
time, always produc-ь more or less marked changes in the compact tissue beneath ..."
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