"Periosteum" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... actual points of impact on the proximal and distal surfaces of a shaft are driven forwards, while the lateral walls of the track in the bone are simply comminuted and pushed on one side without loss of continuity with their covering periosteum. ...
— Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 • George Henry Makins
... FOWLS.—Not uncommon in India, with the feathers curling backwards, and with the primary feathers of the wing and tail imperfect; periosteum of bones black. ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. • Charles Darwin
... waltzes. This gramophone Linda learnt to work; and while Michael read voraciously the works of Hunter, Hugh Owen Thomas, Stromeyer, Duchenne, Goodsir, Wolff, and Redfern on bones, muscles, ligaments, tendons, cartilage, periosteum and osteogenesis—or, more often, Keith's compact and lucid analysis of their experiments and conclusions—Linda let loose in the scented air of a log fire these varied melodies which attuned the mind ...
— Mrs. Warren's Daughter - A Story of the Woman's Movement • Sir Harry Johnston |
