subperiosteal en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˌsʌbpɛɹiˈɒstɪəl/
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub-der. English sub- English periosteal English subperiosteal From sub- + periosteal.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Situated under the periosteum.
An adult male skeleton from Wharram Percy showed fine-grained subperiosteal deposits of new bone on multiple skeletal elements, together with fine cortical pitting[…].
2023, Simon Mays, “The Macroscopic Study of Human Skeletal Paleopathology” (chapter 2), in The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, page 27: