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Definition of Osteocytes
1. osteocyte [n] - See also: osteocyte
Medical Definition of Osteocytes
1. Osteoblasts that have become embedded within the bone matrix, occupying a flat oval cavity and sending, through the canaliculi, slender cytoplasmic processes that make contact with processes of other osteocytes. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Osteocytes
Literary usage of Osteocytes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Osteoporosis Research, Education and Health Promotion (1993)
"... based on their location in the body (trabecular bone versus cortical bone) or
on the state of development (preosteoblasts, lining cells, osteocytes). ..."
2. Mammalian Models for Research on Aging by Bennett J. Cohen, Institute Of Laboratory Animal Resources, National Research Council Staff (1981)
"The remaining 80-95 percent of the free bone surface is covered by an envelope
of thin flattened cells, called bone-lining cells, surface osteocytes, ..."
3. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1888)
"Particles were found in large numbers in the periosteum of the long bones, but
they have not yet been found in the more mature osteocytes in the ..."
4. Collected Papers by the Staff of Saint Mary's Hospital, Mayo Clinic by Saint Marys Hospital (Rochester, Minn.) (1922)
"... erythrocytes, osteocytes, chondrocytes and glandular cells of the prostate,
all of which specific tissues possess reserve cells which have been seen. ..."
5. Collected Papers by the Staff of Saint Mary's Hospital, Mayo Clinic by Saint Marys Hospital (Rochester, Minn.) (1920)
"... secretory cells of the sebaceous, sweat, and mammary glands, fibrous connective
tissue, lymphocytes, erythrocytes, osteocytes, chondrocytes, ..."
6. Toxicological Profile for Fluorides, Hydrogen Fluoride and Fluorine (F) (2001)
"Fluoride causes mottled enamel by interfering with osteocytes and impairing the
work of ameloblast cells. There is no clear evidence that dental fluorosis ..."
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