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Does anyone have a good photo of an example of periosteum in a person? That would be a good link, and I'm interested in seeing it, as well as reading more about the definition. Thanks.

Any picture of the exterior of a bone is essentially a picture of the periosteum. It's the white coating on the outside of a bone. WLU 22:56, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The illustration accompanying this article is called "meninges of the CNS." As neither "CNS" nor "meninges" are defined, or even mentioned, in the article, one must wonder why it was posted. 172.166.3.113 15:42, 9 November 2007 (UTC)RKH[reply]

Wikilinks added to the caption; the periosteum is the second layer in the illustration, and I'm guessing it's hard to find an image that singles out or even identifies the periosteum. WLU 15:52, 9 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Teeth! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.73.70.113 (talk) 03:40, 22 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not explained in article. Is it a disease of some kind? 109.157.79.50 (talk) 00:36, 4 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A specific search at PubMed for titles with "periostosis" retrieved one recent article in English [1], and the next one is about 45 years old. I'm doubtful though, because the abstract says that infantile cortical periostosis is also called Caffey's disease, but a search for Caffey's disease (which does retrieve some recent free review articles) showed that the synonym is in fact "infantile cortical hyperostosis" [2]. There seems to be a wide overlapping of the terms (periostosis and hyperostosis), altough periostosis should refer only to excessive periostial bone formation. There is a Wikipedia article for pachydermoperiostosis (which is better characterized), and in fact Periostosis of long bones redirects to it, so I'm redirecting Periostosis to pachydermoperiostosis to keep it consistent. Thanks for pointing this out ;). --Tilifa Ocaufa (talk) 05:20, 4 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]