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Bone and Bones (Topical Term)

Number of records used in: 13
Preferred form: Bone and Bones
Used for/see from:
  • Bone Tissue
  • n: Bone
  • n: Bone Tissues
  • n: Bones
  • n: Bones and Bone
  • n: Bones and Bone Tissue
  • n: Tissue, Bone
  • n: Tissues, Bone
See also:

/cytol: consider also OSTEOBLASTS; OSTEOCLASTS; OSTEOCYTES; /embryol: consider also OSTEOGENESIS; /surg: consider also OSTEOTOMY or ARTHRODESIS or FRACTURE FIXATION & its specifics; osteosynthesis not one of the preceding terms goes under BONE AND BONES /surg; 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); "disappearing bone" = OSTEOLYSIS, ESSENTIAL; inflammation = OSTEITIS; necrosis = OSTEONECROSIS; "bone minerals" = BONE AND BONES (IM) + MINERALS (IM) or specific mineral (IM)

A specialized CONNECTIVE TISSUE that is the main constituent of the SKELETON. The principle cellular component of bone is comprised of OSTEOBLASTS; OSTEOCYTES; and OSTEOCLASTS, while FIBRILLAR COLLAGENS and hydroxyapatite crystals form the BONE MATRIX.

/transplantation was BONE TRANSPLANTATION 1963-65; was BONE AND BONES/transplantation 1966-89

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