Word.ws English Dictionary

periosteal

periosteal adjective: of or pertaining to the periosteum.

Adjective

periosteal (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to the periosteum.
    • Macroscopically recognizable skeletal changes, such as diffuse periosteal reaction linked to the body’s generalized response to inflammation or infection, or dental conditions such as enamel hypoplasia, linked to childhood dental development disruption, provided essential information about...2023, Anne L. Grauer, “Introduction” (chapter 1), in The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 2–3

Origin of periosteal

From peri- + osteal.

Words formed from periosteal

Questions about periosteal

What does periosteal mean?
Periosteal means of or pertaining to the periosteum.
What part of speech is periosteal?
Periosteal is an adjective.

Words near periosteal in the dictionary

  1. perioscopes
  2. periost
  3. periostal
  4. periostalgia
  5. periostea
  6. periosteal
  7. periosteally
  8. periostealmost
  9. periosteoblastic
  10. periosteoclastic
  11. periosteocytic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: periosteal (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “periosteal.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/periosteal. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.