Word Meanings - PERIOSTEUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The membrane of fibrous connective tissue which closely invests all bones except at the articular surfaces.

Related words: (words related to PERIOSTEUM)

• EXCEPT
  1. To take or leave out from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit. Who never touched The excepted tree. Milton. Wherein all other things concurred. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. To object to; to protest against. Shak.
• ARTICULARLY
  In an articular or an articulate manner.
• ARTICULAR; ARTICULARY
  A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes.
• MEMBRANE
  A thin layer or fold of tissue, usually supported by a fibrous network, serving to cover or line some part or organ, and often secreting or absorbing certain fluids. Note: The term is also often applied to the thin, expanded parts, of
• ARTICULAR
  Of or pertaining to the joints; as, an articular disease; an articular process.
• TISSUED
  Clothed in, or adorned with, tissue; also, variegated; as, tissued flowers. Cowper. And crested chiefs and tissued dames Assembled at the clarion's call. T. Warton.
• EXCEPTIONER
  One who takes exceptions or makes objections. Milton.
• CONNECTIVELY
  In connjunction; jointly.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• EXCEPTIONAL
  Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence, better than the average; superior. Lyell. This particular spot had exceptional advantages. Jowett -- Ex*cep"tion*al*ly , adv.
• EXCEPTANT
  Making exception.
• BONESET
  A medicinal plant, the thoroughwort . Its properties are diaphoretic and tonic.
• MEMBRANEOUS
  See MEMBRANOUS
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• EXCEPTLESS
  Not exceptional; usual. My general and exceptless rashness. Shak.
• EXCEPTIONABLE
  Liable to exception or objection; objectionable. -- Ex*cep"tion*a*ble*ness, n. This passage I look upon to be the most exceptionable in the whole poem. Addison.
• CONNECTIVE
  Connecting, or adapted to connect; involving connection. Connection tissue See Conjunctive tissue, under Conjunctive.
• TISSUE
  One of the elementary materials or fibres, having a uniform structure and a specialized function, of which ordinary animals and plants are composed; a texture; as, epithelial tissue; connective tissue. Note: The term tissue is also often applied
• FIBROUS
  Containing, or consisting of, fibers; as, the fibrous coat of the cocoanut; the fibrous roots of grasses. -- Fi"brous*ness, n.
• EXCEPTIVE
  That excepts; including an exception; as, an exceptive proposition. I. Watts. A particular and exceptive law. Milton.
• WHETTLEBONES
  The vertebræ of the back. Dunglison.
• RACKABONES
  A very lean animal, esp. a horse.
• INTERTISSUED
  Interwoven. Shak.
• SAWBONES
  A nickname for a surgeon.
• PARTICULARITY
  1. The state or quality of being particular; distinctiveness; circumstantiality; minuteness in detail. 2. That which is particular; as: Peculiar quality; individual characteristic; peculiarity. "An old heathen altar with this particularity."
• PARTICULARLY
  1. In a particular manner; expressly; with a specific reference or interest; in particular; distinctly. 2. In an especial manner; in a high degree; as, a particularly fortunate man; a particularly bad failure. The exact propriety of Virgil
• NAPIER'S BONES; NAPIER'S RODS
  A set of rods, made of bone or other material, each divided into nine spaces, and containing the numbers of a column of the multiplication table; -- a contrivance of Baron Napier, the inventor of logarithms, for facilitating the operations
• LAZYBONES
  A lazy person.