- osseous lacuna
- bone l.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
osseous lacuna
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Lacuna — A small pit, cavity, defect or gap. * * * 1. [TA] A small space, cavity, or depression. 2. A gap or defect. 3. An abnormal space between strata or between the cellular elements of the epidermis. 4. SYN: corneal space. [L. a pit, dim. of lacus, a… … Medical dictionary
bone lacuna — a small cavity within the bone matrix containing an osteocyte and from which slender canaliculi radiate and penetrate the adjacent lamellae to anastomose with the canaliculi of neighboring lacunae, thus forming a system of cavities interconnected … Medical dictionary
osteocyte — A cell of osseous tissue that occupies a lacuna and has cytoplasmic processes that extend into canaliculi and make contact by means of gap junctions with the processes of other osteocytes. SYN: bone cell, bone corpuscle, osseous cell. [osteo + G … Medical dictionary
osteocyte — /os tee euh suyt /, n. Cell Biol. a cell of osseous tissue within the bone matrix; a bone cell. [1940 45; OSTEO + CYTE] * * * ▪ cell a cell that lies within the substance of fully formed bone. It occupies a small chamber called a lacuna,… … Universalium
bone cell — a nucleated cell occupying a lacuna of bone; called also osseous c. and bone corpuscle … Medical dictionary
