The phrase "a block of bone" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to anatomy, medicine, or descriptions of physical objects made of bone.
Example: "The surgeon carefully examined a block of bone that had been removed during the procedure."
Alternatives: "a piece of bone" or "a chunk of bone".
Furthermore, with recent improvements in computer technology, combined with advanced three-dimensional cutting machinery, it is now possible to directly cut a block of bone substitute into the most appropriate shape that has been designed preoperatively using a three-dimensional computer simulation [31].
Mesenchymal cells differentiate into bone in the interior of a block of bone matrix implanted in belly of a muscle within a period of 2 to 3 weeks.
A femoral osteotomy was performed to outline a block of bone that contained the entire origin of the lateral collateral ligament.
Following soft tissue flap elevation, a block of bone (10 × 15 mm) was harvested for use as onlay grafting from the anterior border of the right mandibular ramus using a small round bar and fissure bur, with the sharp edges rounded off with a round bur.
For a pedicle screw, the pullout test consists of applying a gradual axial force at a constant rate of displacement to a screw that has been inserted into either the pedicle of a vertebra or within a block of "synthetic bone," where the maximum force required before the screw loses its fixation within the spine is measured.
In our previous experiment, the same inocula induced infection in the rabbit tibia with a foreign body (a small block of bone cement) [16].
In our previous experiment [16], using a rabbit model with a small block of bone cement as the foreign body and use of adjunct sodium morrhuate, we observed that a standard slime-producing laboratory S. epidermidis strain (ATCC 35983) induced only occasionally culture-positive bone infections, while the clinically retrieved S. epidermidis strain (T-54580) produced infection in a reliable manner.
The first-stage surgery involved inoculation of one of the three pathogens with a small block of bone cement.
A small block of bone cement was surgically introduced into the medullary cavity of the proximal tibia followed by peri-implant injection of S. aureus (1 × 105 CFU/mL) or one of the two S. epidermidis (1 × 109 CFU/mL) strains with an adjunct injection of aqueous sodium morrhuate.
The block of bone was freed from the underlying condyle using an osteotome allowing for the lateral collateral ligament to be reflected.
Díez-Peña et al. tried to predict the gentamicin elution from low- and high-loaded bone cement (containing up to 10 wt% of gentamicin sulfate and more than 20 wt% of gentamicin sulfate in relation to the weight of entire block of bone cement) by means of mathematical equations in an experimental model.
