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intramembranous ossification

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intramembranous ossification [‚in·trə′mem·brə·nəs ‚äs·ə·fə′kā·shən]
(histology)
Formation of bone tissue directly from connective tissue without a preliminary cartilage stage.
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Fracture healing involves primary recruitment, proliferation, and differentiation of both osteoprogenitors (osteoblast progenitors), for intramembranous ossification, and undifferentiated mesenchymal cells, for endochondral bone formation (Barnes et al.
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