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osteoanabolic

osteoanabolic adjective: that generates new bone.

Adjective

osteoanabolic (not comparable)

  1. That generates new bone
    • Tetrapeptide (Forteo®) is a recombinant human parathyroid 1–34 (a PTH analogue) that has an osteoanabolic effect in intermittent injection.2015 July 8, Ozra Tabatabaei-Malazy, Bagher Larijani, Mohammad Abdollahi, “Targeting metabolic disorders by natural products”, in Journal of Diabetes and Metabolic Disorders, volume 14, →DOI

Origin of osteoanabolic

From osteo- + anabolic.

Questions about osteoanabolic

What does osteoanabolic mean?
Osteoanabolic means that generates new bone.
What part of speech is osteoanabolic?
Osteoanabolic is an adjective.

Words near osteoanabolic in the dictionary

  1. osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis
  2. osteoabsorptiometric
  3. osteoabsorptiometry
  4. osteoactivin
  5. osteoadherin
  6. osteoanabolic
  7. osteoanabolism
  8. osteoarchaeologic
  9. osteoarchaeological
  10. osteoarchaeologically
  11. osteoarchaeologist

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