Os*ten"tous (?), a. Ostentatious. [Obs.] Feltham.
Os"te*o-. A combining form of Gr. &?; a bone.
Os"te*o*blast (?), n. [Osteo- + -blast.] (Anat.) One of the
protoplasmic cells which occur in the osteogenetic layer of the
periosteum, and from or around which the matrix of the bone is
developed; an osteoplast.
||Os`te*o*cla"sis (?), n. [NL. See Osteoclast.] (Surg.) The operation
||of breaking a bone in order to correct deformity.