4. Type of osseous, or bone, tissue Osteoma.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler
The same disposition to avoid committing themselves to the assertion that any part of the body is non-living may be observed in the writings of the other authorities upon protoplasm above referred to; I have searched all they said, and cannot find a single passage in which they declare even the osseous parts of a bone to be non- living, though this conclusion was the raison d'etre of all they were saying and followed as an obvious inference.
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler
It is a supreme tribute to Helen's glory that the wisest man alive should have behaved just as foolishly over her as did the osseous-brained Ajax Telemon.
"Superwomen"
Albert Payson Terhune