Periosteum Definition

pĕrē-ŏstē-əm
periosteum
noun
The membrane of tough, fibrous connective tissue covering all bones except at the joints.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Periosteum

Noun

Singular:
periosteum
Plural:
periosteums

Origin of Periosteum

  • New Latin from Late Latin periosteon from Greek from periosteos around the bone peri- peri- osteon bone ost- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Ancient Greek περί (peri, “about, around") + ὀστέον (osteon, “bone").

    From Wiktionary

Periosteum Sentence Examples

  • Where a chronic inflammatory process has taken possession of an organ, or, let us say, has been located in periosteum or other fibrous part, there is a great tendency to the production of cicatricial fibrous tissue in mass.

  • Bones are covered by a connective tissue membrane called the periosteum.

  • Nutrients pass from the underlying periosteum (superficial bony layer) through the cartilage matrix by diffusion, to reach the chondrocytes.

  • For the chronic form of industrial poisoning in the manufacture of lucifer matches - a form of necrosis, known in England as " phossy jaw " and in France as " mal chimique," a localized inflammatory infection of the periosteum, ending with the death and exfoliation of part of the bone - see Match.

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