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Sharpey, William

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Sharpey,

William, Scottish physiologist and histologist, 1802-1880.

Sharpey fibers - bundles of collagenous fibers that pass into the outer circumferential lamellae of bone or the cementum of teeth. Synonym(s): perforating fibers

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