Assertion: osteoclast | /r/HasProperty | osteolytic cell
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text: Obviously, these two statements regarding the origin and the function of the osteoclast are considered wrong today and demonstrate the advances in our understanding of osteoclast biology and activity since first described [Kolliker, 1873]. We have known for a long time that the osteoclast is an osteolytic cell, and in fact is the major, if not the exclusive, bone‐resorbing cell, and that the multinucleated osteoclast is of hematopoietic origin.