osteoplasticn.
/ˌɒstɪəʊˈplastɪk/, U.S. /ˈˌɑstioʊˈplæstɪk/ Dentistry. Now rare or disused.
Any of several varieties of dental filling material composed chiefly of zinc oxide, resembling bone when hardened. Frequently attributive.
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1860 Dental Cosmos Apr. 465 Lately there have been introduced to the dental profession a number of preparations styled osteoplastic, bone, and quartz fillings.
1865 Trans. Odontol. Soc. 4 166 The most valuable property of the osteo-plastic, viz., that of its adhesion, is here exemplified.
1870 Brit. Jrnl. Dental Sci. 13 545 (title) A new osteoplastic.
1911 C. W. Glassington Dental Materia Medica (ed. 2) 127 (heading) The osteoplastic fillings.
1911 C. W. Glassington Dental Materia Medica (ed. 2) 129 First get the amalgam mixed ready for filling, then place an osteoplastic round the walls of the cavity.
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osteoplasticadj.
/ˌɒstɪəʊˈplastɪk/, U.S. /ˈˌɑstioʊˈplæstɪk/ 1. Surgery. Of, relating to, or of the nature of osteoplasty.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > fixation and repair operations > [adjective] > repair operations on specific parts
rhinoplastic1824
labioplastic1840
blepharoplastic1841
posthioplastic1842
staphyloplastic1842
stomatoplastic1842
cheiloplastic1847
osteoplastic1862
uranoplastic1865
staphylorrhaphic1875
angioplastic1913
mammaplastic1947
tympanoplastic1955
1862 Brit. Jrnl. Dental Sci. 5 14 (title) On osteo-plastic resection of the upper jaw.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 735 Krause forms an osteoplastic flap.
1900 A. P. Gould & J. C. Warren Internat. Textbk. Surg. I. xvi. 508 When the gap is too great..it may be..treated by an osteoplastic lengthening of the injured bone.
1921 Science 7 Oct. 333/1 Frazier's method of osteoplastic repair of cranial defects.
1953 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 141 469 The cerebral hemisphere was exposed by raising an osteoplastic flap.
1975 Canad. Jrnl. Surg. 18 519 Prophylactic use of osteoplastic thoracoplasty and intercostal muscle grafts warrant more serious consideration.
2000 Ann. Plastic Surg. 45 264 The authors' osteoplastic reconstruction, which involves the enhancement of the fingertips with composite tissues, presents a practical method for the correction of crooked nail deformity.
2. Medicine and Physiology. Of, relating to, or causing the formation or proliferation of bone; osteogenic; osteoblastic.
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > formation of bone > [adjective]
ossific1638
ossified1695
ossifying1722
ossificated1727
symphysial1835
osteogenetic1857
ossifiant1860
osteogenic1860
parosteal1869
ossificatory1870
osteoplastic1870
parostotic1870
osteogenous1872
symphysian-
1870 H. Power tr. S. Stricker Man. Human & Compar. Histol. I. ii. 137 Upon this circumstance depend the osteo-plastic processes that have been observed after the transplantation of excised portions of periosteum.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 553 Signs of osteoplastic periostitis.
1902 Ann. Surg. 35 107 There is no inner osteoplastic layer.
1936 W. B. Castle et al. Pathol. Physiol. & Clin. Descr. Anemias 104 Dependent on the changes in density of the x-ray shadows, the metastases are spoken of as osteoplastic or osteoclastic.
1976 Rec. Results Cancer Res. 54 145 Indications of the possibilities of differential diagnosis based on the cytologic pictures of benign and malignant osteoplastic and chondroplastic tumors, giant-cell tumors and chordoma are discussed.
1995 Jrnl. Laryngol. & Otol. 109 703 Infectious stimuli, at an early stage of the disease, might stimulate such osteoplastic activity at the aditus.
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