Usage examples (28)

• Loose fragments, by which those freed from their periosteal connections are meant, need removal.
• They are usually sub-periosteal and when the periosteum is left intact or nearly so, no crepitation is discernible.
• "The character of the pathology appeared to me to be calcified membranes/tissues, rather than periosteal reaction," he says.
• On the other hand, resolution may occur during the stage of periosteal inflammation, or, an exostosis forms which causes no interference with function.