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Keywords: Multinucleate, Resorb, Resorption, Multinuclear, Osteoblast

Related Terms: Cytostatic, Enchondroma, Hyperplasia, Lymphoma, Osteoblast, Osteoid, Osteolysis, Osteoma, Osteoporosis, Osteosarcoma, Osteosclerosis, Proliferate, Resorption, Paget's Disease, Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Bone Marrow Transplantation, Multiple Myeloma, Osteonecrosis, Osteopenia, Bisphosphonates, Bone Resorption, Osteoblasts, Plasmacytoma, Total Body Irradiation, Ewing's Sarcoma, Cancellous Bone, Bone Marrow Aspiration And Biopsy, Osteocyte, Bone Density, Osteoclasts, Bone Marrow Biopsy, Bisphosphonate, Bone Remodeling, Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma, Remodeling, Autologous Bone Marrow Transplant, Bone Graft, Bone Mineral Density, Iliac Crest, Purging, Bone Marrow Aspiration, Myeloma, Risedronate, Osteo, Osteoid Osteoma, Osteopetrosis, Chondrosarcoma, Bone Cancer, Cancer Cell, Osteogenic Sarcoma

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Same as myeloplax, a large multinucleate cell within the bone, which functions in the absroption and removal of bone tissue.

ftp://ftp.uga.edu/pub/misc/webster/

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A cell that resorbs and removes bone tissue.

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a large multinuclear cell that develops from a monocyte & destroys or resorbs bone tissue

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klan = to break; multinucleated bone cell that can reabsorp bone.

http://www.fluoridealert.org/pesticides/anatomy.n-o.glossary.htm

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