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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 made
Familiarity information: OSSEOUS TISSUE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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