Crossword-Solution: OSTEOID
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Osteoid | a. | Resembling bone; bonelike. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “OSTEOID”
| Clue | Answers |
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| of or resembling bone | 1 answer |
| osseous | 5 answers |
| BONELIKE | 6 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OSTEOID (5)
Enchondroma may be composed of osteoid tissue, such as is found in the ossifying callous between the bone and the periosteum, and, according to Virchow, then takes the name of osteochondroma.
The _osteoid sarcoma_ is characterised by the formation of a tissue resembling bone but deficient in lime salts, and the _petrifying sarcoma_ by the formation of calcified areas in the stroma.
The essential cause of the disease appears to be the nondeposition of earthy salts in the osteoid tissues.
The former term should be limited to the osteoid plates so often found as circumscribed thickenings of the aortic intima, and which are obviously new-formed patches of fibrous tissue in which the calcium salts are accumulated.
Van Gieson’s is an especially useful stain for ordinary work; osteoid tissue is red, calcified areas yellow.