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Abstract
A specialized CONNECTIVE TISSUE that is the main constituent of the SKELETON. The principal cellular component of bone is comprised of OSTEOBLASTS; OSTEOCYTES; and OSTEOCLASTS, while FIBRILLAR COLLAGENS and hydroxyapatite crystals form the BONE MATRIX.
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15 entry terms
- Bone and Bone
- Bones and Bone
- Bones and Bone Tissue
- Bone
- Bone Tissue
- Bones
- Bony Apophyses
- Bony Apophysis
- Condyle
- Apophyses, Bony
- Apophysis, Bony
- Bone Tissues
- Condyles
- Tissue, Bone
- Tissues, Bone
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22 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings abnormalities, anatomy & histology, blood supply, chemistry, cytology, diagnostic imaging, drug effects, embryology, enzymology, immunology, injuries, innervation, metabolism, microbiology, parasitology, pathology, physiology, physiopathology, radiation effects, surgery, ultrastructure, virology.
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/cytol: consider also OSTEOBLASTS; OSTEOCLASTS; OSTEOCYTES; /embryol: consider also OSTEOGENESIS; /surg: consider also OSTEOTOMY or ARTHRODESIS or FRACTURE FIXATION & its specifics; differentiate from SKELETON which is almost never used: restrict SKELETON to bone arrangement as a whole & not for "skeletal" which usually means "bone" (= BONE AND BONES); inflammation = OSTEITIS; necrosis = OSTEONECROSIS;
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/transplantation was BONE TRANSPLANTATION 1963-65; was BONE AND BONES/transplantation 1966-89
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- National Library of Medicine. Bone and Bones. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D001842. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D001842
- Bone and Bones. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone
- Bone and Bones. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q265868