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osteoblast


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Osteoblast  \Os"te*o*blast\,  n.  [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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  osteoblast 
  n  :  a  cell  from  which  bone  develops  [syn:  {bone-forming  cell}] 




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