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something resembling bone; hardened by deposits of mineral matter of any kind; -- said of tissues.

To become bone; to change from a soft tissue to a hard bony tissue.

The soft tissue, or substance, which, in developing bone, ultimately undergoes ossification.

Connected with osteogenesis, or the formation of bone; producing bone; as, osteogenetic tissue; the osteogenetic layer of the periosteum.

ases are chiefly due to deranged mechanism of the bones, nerves, blood vessels, and other tissues, and can be remedied by manipulations of these parts.

An absorption of bone so that the tissue becomes unusually porous.

dibasic acid, existing combined in oxalis as an acid potassium oxalate, and in many plant tissues as the calcium oxalate. It is prepared on a large scale, by the action of fused caustic soda or potash on sawdust, as a white crystalline substance, which has a strong acid taste, and is poisonous in large doses. It is use…

in animals and in vegetables. It occurs mixed with stearin and olein in the fat of animal tissues, with olein and butyrin in butter, with olein in olive oil, etc. Chemically, it is a glyceride of palmitic acid, three molecules of palmitic acid being united to one molecule of glyceryl, and hence it is technically called…

levation of the cuticle, produced by congestion, accumulated secretion, or hypertrophy of tissue; a papule. Quain.

Inflammation of the cellular tissue in the vicinity of the uterus.

of its existence on or in the body of some other animal, feeding upon its food, blood, or tissues, as lice, tapeworms, etc.

The soft celluar substance of the tissues of plants and animals, like the pulp of leaves, to soft tissue of glands, and the like.

Of, pertaining to, or connected with, the parenchyma of a tissue or an organ; as, parenchymatous degeneration.

orbid conditions, as hemorrhage or dropsy, characterized by relaxation of the vessels and tissues, with deficient vitality and lack of reaction in the affected tissues. Passive congestion (Med.), congestion due to obstruction to the return of the blood from the affected part. -- Passive iron (Chem.), iron which has be…

One of a class of virulent microörganisms or bacteria found in the tissues and fluids in infectious diseases, and supposed to be the cause of the disease; a pathogenic organism; a pathogenic bacterium; -- opposed to zymogene.

One who, or that which, filters. "[Tissues] act as percolators." Henfrey.

The membrane of fibrous connective tissue which closely invests cartilage, except where covering articular surfaces.

Inflammation of the tissues surrounding the bladder.

The connective tissue sheath which surrounds a muscle, and sends partitions inwards between the bundles of muscular fibers.

Inflammation of the cellular tissue around the kidney. -- Per`i*ne*phrit"ic, a.