Word Meanings - PAROSTEAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to parostosis; as, parosteal ossification.

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• PAROSTOSIS
  Ossification which takes place in purely fibrous tracts; the formation of bone outside of the periosteum.
• PAROSTEAL
  Of or pertaining to parostosis; as, parosteal ossification.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• OSSIFICATION
  The formation of bone; the process, in the growth of an animal, by which inorganic material is deposited in cartilage or membrane, forming bony tissue; ostosis. Note: Besides the natural ossification of growing tissue, there is the so-called
• FLOSSIFICATION
  A flowering; florification. Craig.
• GROSSIFICATION
  The swelling of the ovary of plants after fertilization. Henslow. (more info) 1. The act of making gross or thick, or the state of becoming so.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach