NOUN
- a dense fibrous membrane covering the surface of bones (except at their extremities) and serving as an attachment for tendons and muscles; contains nerves and blood vessels that nourish the enclosed bone
How To Use periosteum In A Sentence
- Otherwise, the adhesion of abradant periosteum was rather strong. After adhesion, it was hardly influencing for function. So don't emphasize to avoid avulsing lingual side's periosteum clinically.
- The shaft is covered by a membrane called the periosteum and is what the muscles attach to. We���re Born With 270 Bones. As Adults We Have 206
- Thus far there has been traced the formation of enlarged spaces (secondary areolæ), the perforated walls of which are still formed by calcified cartilage matrix, containing an embryonic marrow derived from the processes sent in from the osteogenetic layer of the periosteum, and consisting of bloodvessels and osteoblasts. II. Osteology. 2. Bone
- The second stage consists in the prolongation into the cartilage of processes of the deeper or osteogenetic layer of the perichondrium, which has now become periosteum (Fig. 79, ir). II. Osteology. 2. Bone
- Conclusion The method of suspending musculocutaneous flap to periosteum is perfect one of lower blepharoplasty and lifting midface to flatten nasolabial fold.
- The platysma is secured to the mastoid periosteum after raising the lateral platysma flap in order to help define the jaw line and improve contouring in the submandibular region.
- Holes and channels run through it, carrying blood vessels and nerves from the periosteum, the bone's membrane covering, to its inner parts.
- We successfully used autogenous periosteum to reinforce scleral defects in 3 patients after a pterygium excision.
- It is a general practice of the orthopaedic surgeons to strip the periosteum, to ream the medullary cavity etc, which may easily cause injury of the nutrient artery of the long bones.
- Bone and periosteum are well innervated, and these nerve fibers transmit pain.
