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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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