Category: O

Practitioner of osteopathy who believes that rectifying structural difficulties by manipulation will nullify toxic states; he also uses physical, surgical, and medicinal methods. A person who practises osteopathy.  

Disease of bone.  

Bone tumor.  

Bone marrow due to pus-forming organisms.  

Softening of bone.  

Softening of bone due to deficient minerals. Softening of the bones caused by a deficiency of mineral constituents of the bone.  

Deposition of bone in skin.  

That part of the skull derived from bones formed from membranes. The portion of the cranium formed of membrane bones in contrast to that formed of cartilage (chon-drocranium).  

Any of the segments making up a bony structure.  

Fracture of a bone; destruction of bone. The deliberate breaking of a malformed or malunited bone, carried out by a surgeon to correct deformity.