Assertion: periosteum | /r/HasProperty | inert limiting membrane
Facets:
value: merely
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Almost two hundred years have elapsed since the beginning of the debate over the importance of the periosteum in bone growth, regeneration and repair; and in spite of the vast amount of experimental and clinical evidence submitted by the adherents of the two views, namely, the one that the periosteum is an osteogenic membrane, and the other that it is merely an inert limiting membrane, there exists today the same two factions, as in the early part of the eighteenth century.