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bone chips

small pieces of cancellous bone generally used to fill bony defects and to promote reossification.
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bone chips

(bōn chips)
Small pieces of cancellous bone generally used to fill bony defects and to promote reossification.
Medical Dictionary for the Dental Professions © Farlex 2012
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MSCs derived from dental pulp, gingival fibroblasts and bone chips resulted in re-epithelialization of 68, 80 and 91 percent, respectively, after three days.
(d) Subsequent digestion of these bone chips with a relatively high concentration of collagenase leads to some loss of mineralised bone, opening up the canal system and associated lining cells.
[USA], Nov 17 ( ANI ): A team of researchers has discovered a pattern of unusual bone chips in the feet of clog-wearing 19th-Century Dutch farmers - injuries that offer clues to the damage we may unwittingly be causing to our own feet.
We observed bone chips [348 (39.63%)] and coins [338 (38.49%)] to be the commonest types of FB in food passage.
This new product will eliminate the need to mix bone chips and DBM putty intra-operatively, saving time and reducing graft variability.
Sitting there grooming her nails like a butcher picking bone chips out of his mincer, she discussed the problem she has with "negroes" as casually as someone might explain their dislike of parking tickets.
Bone chips were transferred to a culture flask containing 30 ml DMEM and digested with 0.25% collagenase (Sigma) at 37 [degrees]C for 4h.
GARY Moore will be looking for a suitable starting-point to the campaign for Sire De Grugy, who is back in training after undergoing surgery to have bone chips removed from his ankles.
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