osseous

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The one osseous, the other sleek; the one stoop-shouldered, the other erect as a corporal of infantry But as Cressler was about to continue Crookes put his chin in the air Hark!"

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  1. adjective Composed of, containing, or resembling bone; bony.

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  • Isoprenoids were required for translocation and anchorage of small G proteins like Rho or Ras to the plasma membrane assuring their ultimate involvement in signal transduction during several important normal and tumor cellular pathways. in vivo efficacy of all BPs on extra-osseous sites or primary tumors was still debated. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Here, we showed that the symmetrical esterification of the phosphonic groups may improved BPs soft tissue bioavaibility limiting osseous or calcified tissue uptake. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • The scapula, covered by thick carneous masses, does not lie in the living body directly upon the osseous-thorax, neither does the clavicle. —  Surgical Anatomy
  • Each atomic type now attracts from the immediate surroundings the atoms that resemble it, the process of segmentation which constitutes germination begins, and the particular tissues represented by the different atomic types are formed; in this way the fibrous, osseous, muscular, nervous, epithelial, and other tissues are reproduced The creative activity that builds up tissues, if left to itself, could create nothing but formless masses; it must have the help of the intelligence to organise the atoms into molecules, the molecules into tissues, and these again into organs capable of a corporate life as a single organism, supplied with centres of sensation and action. —  Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution
  • In the third class come tissues the cells of which have fused by their walls, but whose cell-cavities are not in continuity, such as osseous tissue and cartilage. —  Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
 

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  1. From Latin osseus, from os, oss-, bone; see ost- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin osseus, bony, from os (oss-), bone: see os.
 

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