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osteoclast


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Osteoclast  \Os"te*o*clast\,  n.  [Osteo-  +  Gr  ?  to  break.] 
  1.  (Physiol.)  A  myeloplax. 
 
  Note:  The  osteoclasts  occur  usually  in  pits  or  cavities  which 
  they  appear  to  have  excavated,  and  are  supposed  to  be 
  concerned  in  the  absorption  of  the  bone  matrix. 
 
  2.  An  instrument  for  performing  osteoclasis. 




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