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.

Osteogenetic.

The formation or growth of bone.

An osteologist.

The description of bones; osteology.

Resembling bone; bonelike.

A massive impure apatite, or calcium phosphate.

One versed in osteology; an osteologist.

Of or pertaining to osteology.

One who is skilled in osteology; an osteologer.

The science which treats of the bones of the vertebrate skeleton.

Softening and absorption of bone.

A tumor composed mainly of bone; a tumor of a bone.

A disease of the bones, in which they lose their earthy material, and become soft, flexible, and distorted. Also called malacia.

Divination by means of bones.

An osteocomma.

A practitioner of osteopathy.

Of or pertaining to osteopathy.

One who practices osteopathy; an osteopath.

Any disease of the bones. A system of treatment based on the theory that diseases are chiefly due to deranged mechanism of the bones, nerves, blood vessels, and other tissues, and can be remedied by manipulations of these parts. Modern practitioners use the therapeutic and diagnostic techniques of modern medicine as well as manipulative procedures.

Inflammation of a bone and its periosteum.

An instrument for transmission of auditory vibrations through the bones of the head, so as to be appreciated as sounds by persons deaf from causes other than those affecting the nervous apparatus of hearing.

An osteoblast.

An operation or process by which the total or partial loss of a bone is remedied.

An absorption of bone so that the bone tissue becomes unusually porous. It occurs especially in elderly men and postmenopausal women, and predisposes the elderly to fractures of the bones.

Having bones in the fins, as certain fishes.

A tumor having the structure of a sarcoma in which there is a deposit of bone; sarcoma connected with bone.

Abnormal hardness and density of bone.

Strong nippers or a chisel for dividing bone.

One skilled in osteotomy.

The dissection or anatomy of bones; osteology.

Same as Vertebrata.

The mouth of a river; an estuary.

Pertaining to, or applied to, the language of the Tuscaroras, Iroquois, Wyandots, Winnebagoes, and a part of the Sioux Indians.

The exterior opening of a stomate. See Stomate. Any small orifice.

See Osteitis.

An opening; a passage.

See Hostler.

A female ostler.

See Hostelry.

East men; Danish settlers in Ireland, formerly so called.

Bone formation; ossification. See Ectostosis, and Endostosis.

A division of bivalve mollusks including the oysters and allied shells.

Any one of a family of bivalves, of which the oyster is the type.

A genus of plectognath fishes of the family Ostraciontidae having the body covered with solid, immovable, bony plates. It includes the trunkfishes (also called boxfish).

A fish of the genus Ostracion and allied genera.

Same as ostracize.

Banishment by popular vote, -- a means adopted at Athens to rid the city of a person whose talent and influence gave umbrage.

A fossil oyster.

To exile by ostracism; to banish by a popular vote, as at Athens.

A member of the Ostracoda, an order of tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans with a shrimplike body enclosed in a bivalve shell.

An order of Entomostraca possessing shrimplike bodies enclosed in hard bivalve shells; called also seed shrimp and mussel shrimp. They were formerly referred to as Ostracoidea. They are of small size, and swim freely about; many are less than 1 mm in length. Microfossils of certain extinct orders have been found extending back to the Cambrian age.

Same as ostracod.

Any of several extinct fishlike jawless vertebrates having a heavily armored body; of the Paleozoic.

A suborder of fishes of which Ostracion is the type.

Of or pertaining to the Ostracoidea (now Ostracoda). One of the Ostracoidea (now Ostracoda).

An order of Entomostraca possessing hard bivalve shells. They are of small size, and swim freely about. Now usually written Ostracoda.

A genus of bivalve Mollusca which includes the true oysters.

Of or pertaining to an oyster, or to a shell; shelly.

One who feeds on oysters.

A large bird of the genus Struthio, of which Struthio camelus of Africa is the best known species. It has long and very strong legs, adapted for rapid running; only two toes; a long neck, nearly bare of feathers; and short wings incapable of flight. The adult male is about eight feet high.

Producing oysters; containing oysters.

One of the Eastern Goths. See Goth.

Of or pertaining to the Ostrogoths.

Assisting the sense of hearing; as, an otacoustic instrument.

An instrument to facilitate hearing, as an ear trumpet.

Pain in the ear; earache.

Of or pertaining to otalgia. A remedy for otalgia.

Pain in the ear; otalgia.

Any eared seal.

An instrument for exhibiting the repulsive action produced by light or heat in an exhausted vessel; a modification of the radiometer.

Otherwise.

In another manner.

Of another kind or sort; in another way.

The quality or state of being other or different; alterity; oppositeness.

See Otherwise.

In or to some other place, or places; elsewhere.

At another time, or other times; sometimes; occasionally.

existing outside of or not in accordance with nature.

See Ottoman.

A South African plant of the genus Othonna having smooth often fleshy leaves and heads of yellow flowers.

Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the ear; auricular; auditory.

A suborder of terrestrial game birds of the Old World and Australia, including the bustards.

A family of birds related to the cranes, most of which are large and ground-running, and comprising the bustards.

Being at leisure or ease; unemployed; indolent; idle.

Leisure; indolence; idleness; ease.

A genus of birds including certain of the bustards.

Inflammation of the ear.

A mass of otoliths. An otolith.

The cavity in the skull in which the parts of the internal ear are lodged.

Of or pertaining to the otocrane.

An auditory cyst or vesicle; one of the simple auditory organs of many invertebrates, containing a fluid and otoliths; also, the embryonic vesicle from which the parts of the internal ear of vertebrates are developed.

A description of the ear.

One of the small bones or particles of calcareous or other hard substance in the internal ear of vertebrates, and in the auditory organs of many invertebrates; an ear stone. Collectively, the otoliths are called ear sand and otoconite.

Of or pertaining to otoliths.

Of or pertaining to otology.

One skilled in otology; an aurist.

The branch of science which treats of the ear and its diseases.

A diseased condition of the ear.

A flow or running from the ear, esp. a purulent discharge.

An instrument for examining the condition of the ear.

Of or pertaining to the otoscope or to otoscopy.

The examination of the ear; the art of using the otoscope.

An auditory ossicle.

An extinct genus of huge vertebrates, probably dinosaurs, known only from four-toed tracks in Triassic sandstones.

See Attar.

A tribe of Indians who, when first known, lived on the Ottawa River. Most of them subsequently migrated to the southwestern shore of Lake Superior.

A corruption of Annotto.

A small hardy British hound having long pendulous ears and a thick coarse shaggy coat with an oily undercoat; bred in England for hunting otters. Called also otter dog.

See Attar.

A Turk.

An Ottoman.

A micaceous mineral occurring in small scales. It is characteristic of certain crystalline schists.

Any South American monkey of the genus Brachyurus, especially Brachyurus ouakari.

A small landlocked variety of the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar ounaniche) of Lake St. John, Canada, and neighboring waters, noted for its vigor and activity, and habit of leaping from the water when hooked.

The wanderoo.

A Brazilian monkey of the genus Mycetes.

A dungeon with an opening only at the top, found in some old castles and other strongholds, into which persons condemned to perpetual imprisonment, or to perish secretly, were thrust, or lured to fall.

A socket or bezel holding a precious stone; hence, a jewel or ornament worn on the person.