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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Investing or covering bone or a bone; of or pertaining to periosteum: as. periosteal tissue; Periosteal vessels.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Anat.) Situated around bone; of or pertaining to the periosteum.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective anatomy Of or pertaining to the periosteum

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