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ostea

ostea is the plural of osteon.

Meaning of osteon

Noun

osteon (plural osteons or ostea)

  1. Any of the central canals, and surrounding bony layers, found in compact bone.

Questions about ostea

What is ostea the plural of?
Ostea is the plural of osteon.

Words near ostea in the dictionary

  1. Ostaš
  2. Ostberg
  3. Ostbergs
  4. OSTC
  5. Oste
  6. ostea
  7. osteal
  8. ostealgia
  9. ostechondral
  10. osteclastogenesis
  11. ostectomies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ostea (page history and authors); osteon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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