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单词 osteocyte
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Definition of osteocyte in English:

osteocyte

noun ˈɒstɪə(ʊ)sʌɪtˈästēəˌsīt
Physiology
  • A bone cell, formed when an osteoblast becomes embedded in the material it has secreted.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Satellite cells are a type of adult stem cells that can become myocytes, adipocytes or osteocytes.
    • Strain detection in the skeleton is thought to be effected by bone-lining cells and osteocytes embedded within the bone matrix.
    • Building new bone is in part a problem of balance: regulating osteocytes, that add bone, and osteoclasts, that break it down.
    • This communication network serves for transport of nutrients, waste products, and signaling molecules from the vascular system to the osteocytes and vice versa.
    • These cells, the osteocytes, have long extensions which pass down an interlocking network of canaliculi in the bone.

Derivatives

  • osteocytic

  • adjective
    Physiology
    • Differentiated osteocytic cells derived from the interior of calvarial bone chips were compared to osteoblastic cells from the surface.
 
 

Definition of osteocyte in US English:

osteocyte

nounˈästēəˌsīt
Physiology
  • A bone cell, formed when an osteoblast becomes embedded in the matrix it has secreted.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • These cells, the osteocytes, have long extensions which pass down an interlocking network of canaliculi in the bone.
    • This communication network serves for transport of nutrients, waste products, and signaling molecules from the vascular system to the osteocytes and vice versa.
    • Building new bone is in part a problem of balance: regulating osteocytes, that add bone, and osteoclasts, that break it down.
    • Satellite cells are a type of adult stem cells that can become myocytes, adipocytes or osteocytes.
    • Strain detection in the skeleton is thought to be effected by bone-lining cells and osteocytes embedded within the bone matrix.
 
 
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