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OSSEOUS TISSUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does osseous tissue mean? 

OSSEOUS TISSUE (noun)
  The noun OSSEOUS TISSUE has 1 sense:

1. the porous calcified substance from which bones are madeplay

  Familiarity information: OSSEOUS TISSUE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


OSSEOUS TISSUE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The porous calcified substance from which bones are made

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

bone; osseous tissue

Hypernyms ("osseous tissue" is a kind of...):

animal material (material derived from animals)

Holonyms ("osseous tissue" is a substance of...):

bone; os (rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates)


 Context examples 


The mineralized osseous tissue that gives rigidity to the bones and forms its honeycomb-like three-dimensional internal structure.

(Bone Tissue, NCI Thesaurus)



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