释义 |
osteine, -in Anat.|ˈɒstiːɪn| [ad. Gr. ὀστέϊν-ος made or formed of bone.] The substance of bone, bony tissue, bone as a tissue.
1854Owen Skel. & Teeth in Circ. Sc., Organ. Nat. I. 161 When those salts consist chiefly of phosphate of lime, the tissues called ‘osteine’, or bone, and ‘dentine’, or tooth, are constituted, between which the chief distinction lies in the mode of arrangement of the earthy particles. 1872L. P. Meredith Teeth (1878) 10 Beside these, are found albumen, fibrine, osteine, globuline, carbonate of lime, fluoride of calcium,..and other proximate principles. |