Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Bone that is developed or preformed in cartilage, as distinguished from membrane-bone.
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The lining layer becomes hyperplastic and forms an aggressive front termed "pannus" at the cartilage-bone junction, leading to the characteristic RA bone erosions (figure 1B).
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