osseous matter
Example Sentences
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"Osseous matter, osseous matter," I murmured mechanically, and it sounded so like an echo of her words that I am sure she thought me going mad.
From Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography by Laurence Oliphant
Perhaps there was "fibrin" and "osseous matter" there.
From Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough by A. G. (Alfred George) Gardiner
"There must be some osseous matter behind my dura mater!"
From Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography by Laurence Oliphant
Stiff joints are occasioned by anchylosis, or the deposit of calcareous or osseous matter within the ligament or around the head of the bone, which latter defect is known as ring-bone in the horse.
From The Dog by William Youatt
It is just at the critical moment that my osseous matter invariably plays me a trick.
From Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography by Laurence Oliphant
