| osteocope | <medicine> Pain in the bones; a violent fixed pain in any part of a bone. Osteocop"ic. Origin: Gr.; a bone + a striking, pain: cf. F. Osteocope. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| osteocranium | <anatomy> The bony cranium, as distinguished from the cartilaginous cranium. Origin: Osteo- + cranium. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| osteocystoma | A unilocular cyst containing serous fluid and lined with a thin layer of connective tissue, occurring usually in the shaft of a long bone in a child. Synonym: idiopathic bone cavity, osteocystoma, simple bone cyst, traumatic bone cyst, unicameral bone cyst. (05 Mar 2000) |
| osteocyte | <pathology> Osteoblast that is embedded in bony tissue and which is relatively inactive. (18 Nov 1997) |
| osteocytes | Osteoblasts that have become embedded within the bone matrix, occupying a flat oval cavity and sending, through the canaliculi, slender cytoplasmic processes that make contact with processes of other osteocytes. (12 Dec 1998) |
| osteodentin | Rapidly formed tertiary dentin that contains entrapped odontoblasts and few dentinal tubules, thereby superficially resembling bone. Origin: osteo-+ L. Dens, tooth (05 Mar 2000) |
| osteodentine | <anatomy> A hard substance, somewhat like bone, which is sometimes deposited within the pulp cavity of teeth. Origin: Osteo- + denite. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| osteodermatopoikilosis | Osteopoikilosis with skin lesions, most commonly small elastic fibrous nodules on the posterior aspects of the thighs and buttocks; irregular autosomal dominant inheritance. Synonym: Buschke-Ollendorf syndrome. Origin: osteo-+ G. Derma, skin, + poikilos, dappled, + -osis, condition (05 Mar 2000) |
| osteodermatous | Pertaining to or characterised by osteodermia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| osteodermia | Synonym: osteoma cutis. Origin: osteo-+ G. Derma, skin (05 Mar 2000) |
| osteodesmosis | Transformation of tendon into bony tissue. Origin: osteo-+ G. Desmos, a band (tendon), + -osis, condition (05 Mar 2000) |
| osteodiastasis | Separation of two adjacent bones, as of the cranium. Origin: osteo-+ G. Diastasis, a separation (05 Mar 2000) |
| osteodynia | Synonym: ostealgia. Origin: osteo-+ G. Odyne, pain (05 Mar 2000) |
| osteodysplasty | A generalised skeletal dysplasia with prominent forehead and small mandible; radiographically, there are irregular ribbon-like constrictions of the ribs and tubular bones; probably autosomal dominant inheritance. There are arguably two forms, autosomal recessive and X-linked. Synonym: Melnick-Needles syndrome. Origin: osteo-+ G. Dys-, bad, + plastos, formed (05 Mar 2000) |
| osteodystrophia | <pathology> Defective bone formation. (18 Nov 1997) |