osseous tissue

1. 1.

   the porous calcified substance from which bones are made

   Synonymsbone

   Broaderanimal material

Questions about osseous tissue

What does osseous tissue mean?

osseous tissue means "the porous calcified substance from which bones are made".

What is another word for osseous tissue?

Close synonyms include bone. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is osseous tissue a common word?

osseous tissue is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.