The type of connective tissue of which bones are composed, consisting of layers of specialized cells (osteoblasts, osteocytes, and osteoclasts)…

With the sense ‘of or relating to bone or bones’, as bone cartilage, bone fragment, bone tissue, etc.

Originally: calcified bone tissue. Later: = ossein, n.

The collagenous organic component of bone; decalcified bone.

the intercellular substance of bone, which consists of mainly of collagen fibres, proteoglycans, and inorganic salts.

The uncalcified collagenous matrix of bone, produced by osteoblasts.

the embryonic tissue which gives rise to bone.

Cancellous or spongy bone tissue, such as that found within the ends of the long bones.