osteolyticadj.
/ˌɒstɪəˈlɪtɪk/, U.S. /ˈˌɑstioʊˈlɪdɪk/ Medicine.
Causing or characterized by osteolysis.
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rarefactive?a1425
rarefied1523
cariez'd1634
bonea1639
cariated1665
carious1676
cariose1763
ossivorous1842
osteoporotic1865
osteolytic1875
porotic1883
caried1884
Albers-Schönberg1922
osteodystrophic1925
1875 S. Wilks & W. Moxon Lect. Pathol. Anat. (ed. 2) 63 (heading) Osteolytic cancer.
1916 Science 7 Jan. 36/1 The formation of bone..was, apparently, retarded by some osteolytic agent.
1935 Jrnl. Bone & Joint Surg. 33 840 (caption) Osteolytic osteogenic sarcoma in the femur of a child.
1948 G. Pincus et al. Hormones V. v. 634 The healing of some osteolytic lesions has been noted to take place at the same time as new osseous lesions appeared.
1974 R. Passmore & J. S. Robson Compan. Med. Stud. III. i. xxvi. 31/1 Giant cell tumour (osteoclastoma)... Commonly a thin shell of bone covers the lesion, which is osteolytic.
1984 J. R. Tighe & D. R. Davies Pathol. (ed. 4) xiv. 128 Carcinoma may produce osteolytic skeletal metastases.
Derivatives
ˌosteoˈlytically adv.
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1976 Nature 2 Sept. 72/2 The ability of human mammary carcinomas to break down bone in vitro has been shown to be caused..by their release of an osteolytically active, non-dialysable material.
1997 Brit. Jrnl. Rheumatol. 36 957 The purpose of this study was to determine whether gently washing S[taphylococcus] epidermidis in saline also released osteolytically active proteins.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1875