involucrum

involucrum
1. An enveloping membrane, e.g., a sheath or sac. 2. The sheath of new bone that forms around a sequestrum. SYN: involucre. [L. a wrapper, fr. in-volvo, to roll up]

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in·vo·lu·crum .in-və-'lü-krəm n, pl -cra -krə a formation of new bone about a sequestrum (as in osteomyelitis)

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n.
a growth of new bone, formed from the periosteum, that sometimes surrounds a mass of infected and dead bone in osteomyelitis.

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in·vo·lu·crum (in″vo-looґkrəm) pl. involuґcra [L.; in in + volvere to wrap] a covering or sheath, such as contains the sequestrum of a necrosed bone.

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