Endosteum

Quick meaning: Endosteum is a noun meaning (biology) A membranous vascular layer of cells which line the medullary cavity of a bone; an internal periosteum.

Meaning

(biology) A membranous vascular layer of cells which line the medullary cavity of a bone; an internal periosteum.

Example Sentences

Tibial endostea isolated from 19-day-old chick embroys and cultured for 10 days became populated with multinucleated cells that arise from monocytes.

The periosteum is constrained and interrupted by tendons, ligaments, and fibrocartilage, whereas the endosteum is awash with hematopoitic bone marrow[…].

Hyaline cartilage is insensitive, and radiographic changes imputed to it can have no bearing on pain from it unless it is so worn away that the endosteums of the articulating bones are rubbing on each other.

The cortical and trabecular endosteums are the inner linings of bone. The osteonal endosteum lines the osteonal canals […] and is the internal lining of bone. It is continuous with the periosteal and cortical endosteums.

Word Forms

• endostea
• endosteums

Related Words

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