Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The thin layer of cells lining the medullary cavity of a bone.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anatomy, the lining membrane of the medullary cavity of a bone; the internal periosteum.
- noun Cuttlebone.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) The layer of vascular connective tissue lining the medullary cavities of bone.
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- noun biology A
membranous vascular layer ofcells which line the medullary cavity of abone
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- noun vascular membrane that lines the inner surface of long bones
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin : end(o)– + Greek osteon, bone; see ost- in Indo-European roots.]
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From endo- + Ancient Greek ὀστέον (osteon, "bone").
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Examples
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_ -- The _dura mater_ is a fibro-serous membrane, the outer, fibrous layer constituting the endosteum of the skull, the inner, serous layer forming one of the coverings of the brain.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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