The growth action of bone tissue, as it assimilates surgically implanted devices or prostheses to be used as either replacement parts (e.g., hip) or as anchors (e.g., endosseous dental implants).

A skeletal framework; an underlying structure. / (architecture) Any supporting framework under a vault, roof etc.

Synonym of Ossetian

Synonym of Ossetian

An ethnolinguistic region located on both sides of the Greater Caucasus Mountains, largely inhabited by the Ossetians. The northern part of the region forms North Ossetia-Alania federal subject of Russia. The southern part is South Ossetia.

Of, or pertaining to Ossetia or Ossetians.

A member of the Iranian people inhabiting Ossetia.

The Eastern Iranian language spoken by these people.

plural of os

Autonomous oblast of the Soviet Union in the Georgian SSR existing from 1922 to 1990.