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the bone's living wrapper, where new skeleton gets manufactured and broken ones learn to heal
means The tough, vascular membrane that sheathes the outer surface of bones, supplying them with blood and the cells needed for growth and repair.
from A Latinized form built from Greek parts: 'peri-' meaning 'around' and 'osteon' meaning 'bone' — literally 'the thing around the bone.' The same 'osteon' gives us osteoporosis and osteopath, while 'peri-' wraps itself around countless words, from perimeter to periscope. So the name simply tells you what the membrane does: it goes around the bone.
- feels pain
- richly innervated, source of brutal deep-bone aches
- heals you
- its cells build fresh bone after fractures
- two layers
- tough outer fibers, busy inner cell factory
- anchors tendons
- Sharpey's fibers stitch muscle right into bone
- thins with age
- older periosteum makes bones slower to mend
periosteum of femur — outer fibrous layer of thighbone that heals fractures and regenerates bone in all mammals
periosteum in orthodontics — membrane targeted in dental treatments to guide tooth movement and bone remodeling