Crossword-Solution: PERIOSTEUM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Periosteum | n. | The membrane of fibrous connective tissue which closely invests all bones except at the articular surfaces. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “PERIOSTEUM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BONE membrane | 1 answer |
| BONE tissue (connective), double-layered | 1 answer |
| CONNECTIVE tissue surrounding a bone | 1 answer |
| a tough fibrous membrane covering the surface of bones | 1 answer |
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Sentences with PERIOSTEUM (5)
Where the periosteum had sloughed the bone was granulating, and at the time of the report skin-grafting was shortly to be tried.
The principal pathologic change is seen in the epiphyseal lines of long bones and beneath the periosteum.
Shifting of the bone has been done, e.g., by dividing a strip of the hard palate covered with its soft parts, parallel to the fissure in cleft palate, but leaving unsevered the bony attachments in front, and partially fracturing the pedicle, drawing the bony flaps together with sutures; or, when forming a new nose, by turning down with the skin and periosteum the outer table of the frontal bone, split off with a chisel, after cutting around the part to be removed.
Robson and Hayes of Rochester, N.Y., have successfully supplemented excision of spina bifida by the transplantation of a strip of periosteum from a rabbit.
Poncet hastened a cure in a case of necrosis with partial destruction of the periosteum by inserting grafts taken from the bones of a dead infant and from a kid.