Kostnego

Kostnego is the genitive singular form of the Polish adjective kostny, meaning bone-related or osseous. It is not a stand-alone noun; rather, it functions as an inflected form used to modify a noun in the genitive case.

In medical and anatomical usage, kostny describes structures associated with bone. When the modifying phrase appears before a noun in genitive, the form kostnego appears, as in układu kostnego meaning “of the skeletal system.” For example, choroba układu kostnego translates to “disease of the skeletal system.”

Etymology: kostny derives from kość, the Polish word for bone, and uses the standard adjectival formation pattern. Kostnego is the genitive singular masculine/neuter ending of that adjective. The feminine form is kostnej, and the plural genitive form is kostnych, reflecting standard Polish adjective declension.

Kostnego appears primarily in grammatically fixed phrases rather than as an independent concept. It is commonly encountered in clinical and anatomical texts when describing bone-related systems, diseases, or structures in genitive constructions.

See also: kość, kostny, układ kostny, osseous, skeletal system.