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subperiostial

subperiostial is the misspelling of subperiosteal.

Meaning of subperiosteal

Adjective

subperiosteal (not comparable)

  1. Situated under the periosteum.
    • An adult male skeleton from Wharram Percy showed fine-grained subperiosteal deposits of new bone on multiple skeletal elements, together with fine cortical pitting[…].2023, Simon Mays, “The Macroscopic Study of Human Skeletal Paleopathology” (chapter 2), in The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, page 27

Questions about subperiostial

What is subperiostial the misspelling of?
Subperiostial is the misspelling of subperiosteal.

Words near subperiostial in the dictionary

  1. subperiodic
  2. subperiodicity
  3. subperiods
  4. subperiosteal
  5. subperiosteally
  6. subperiostial
  7. subperipheral
  8. subperitoneal
  9. subperitoneally
  10. subperitoneum
  11. subpermafrost

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