osteoclasts

Meaning of osteoclasts

plural noun

a large multinucleate bone cell which absorbs bone tissue during growth and healing.

late 19th century: from osteo- ‘bone’ + Greek klastēs ‘breaker’.

Information about osteoclasts

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of osteoclasts is: osteoclast.
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Hyphenation of osteoclasts

os-teo-clasts

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
  • osteoclasts is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

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