Definition of "osteoplastic" [os•te•o•plas•tic]

• Of or relating to osteoplasty. (adjective)
• Relating to or functioning in bone formation. (adjective)

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• "The results of an osteoplastic periostitis are frequently met with in the bones of the foot, and are described by veterinary writers under such headings as 'Pedal Exostoses,' 'Ossifying Ostitis,' and 'Pedal"
• "When the foot has been subjected to laminitis of some weeks 'duration, the same condition is also met with, being at the same time associated with rarefactive osteoplastic ostitis, conditions which we shall shortly describe."
• "We get, therefore, in many cases, a condition of rarefactive ostitis occurring side by side with a slowly progressive caries within the bone, while outside is occurring an osteoplastic periostitis."