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osteolytic

osteolytic adjective: of, pertaining to, or causing osteolysis.

Adjective

osteolytic (comparative more osteolytic, superlative most osteolytic)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or causing osteolysis.
    • It is usually rapidly progressing osteolytic lesions that initiated just prior to death, such as those that occur in malignant cancers that tend to present the most problems in recognition.2023, Simon Mays, “The Macroscopic Study of Human Skeletal Paleopathology” (chapter 2), in The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, page 28

osteolytic meaning in Tamil

osteolytic in Tamil

எலும்பு நசிவு

Forms of osteolytic

comparativemore osteolytic
superlativemost osteolytic

Origin of osteolytic

From osteolysis + -tic or osteo- + -lytic.

Questions about osteolytic

What does osteolytic mean?
Osteolytic means of, pertaining to, or causing osteolysis.
What is osteolytic in Tamil?
Osteolytic in Tamil is எலும்பு நசிவு. See Osteolytic meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is osteolytic?
Osteolytic is an adjective.

Words near osteolytic in the dictionary

  1. osteologies
  2. osteologist
  3. osteologists
  4. osteology
  5. osteolysis
  6. osteolytic
  7. osteoma
  8. osteomalacia
  9. osteomalacias
  10. osteomalacic
  11. osteomancy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: osteolytic (page history and authors); osteolytic (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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