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Webster 1913 Edition
Osteoblast
Os′te-o-blast
,Noun.
[
Osteo-
+ -blast
.] (Anat.)
One of the protoplasmic cells which occur in the osteogenetic layer of the periosteum, and from or around which the matrix of the bone is developed; an osteoplast.
Definition 2024
osteoblast
osteoblast
English
Noun
osteoblast (plural osteoblasts)
- (biology, cytology) A mononucleate cell from which bone develops.
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