osteoblast : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: osteoblast	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for osteoblast
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
osteoblast n a cell from which bone develops [syn: osteoblast, {bone- forming cell}]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Osteoblast \Os"teoblast\, 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.