Organ or Tissue Function
bone development
bone de·vel·op·ment [ bohn dih-vel-uhp-muhnt ]
Subclass of:
Biomineralization
Definitions related to bone development:
  • Growth and development of bones from fetus to adult; includes two principal mechanisms of bone growth, which are growth in length of long bones at the epiphyseal cartilages, and growth in thickness by depositing new bone; see also OSTEOGENESIS.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • The growth and development of bones from fetus to adult. It includes two principal mechanisms of bone growth: growth in length of long bones at the epiphyseal cartilages and growth in thickness by depositing new bone (OSTEOGENESIS) with the actions of OSTEOBLASTS and OSTEOCLASTS.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • The process whose specific outcome is the progression of bone over time, from its formation to the mature structure. Bone is the hard skeletal connective tissue consisting of both mineral and cellular components.
    Gene Ontology Dictionary
    Gene Ontology Consortium, 2021
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