Definition of bone

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Bone (n.) The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone..

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Admaxillary :: Admaxillary (a.) Near to the maxilla or jawbone.
Tibia :: Tibia (n.) A musical instrument of the flute kind, originally made of the leg bone of an animal..
Ossification :: Ossification (n.) The formation of bone; the process, in the growth of an animal, by which inorganic material (mainly lime salts) is deposited in cartilage or membrane, forming bony tissue; ostosis..
Herringbone :: Herringbone (a.) Pertaining to, or like, the spine of a herring; especially, characterized by an arrangement of work in rows of parallel lines, which in the alternate rows slope in different directions..
Prootic :: Prootic (a.) In front of the auditory capsule; -- applied especially to a bone, or center of ossification, in the periotic capsule..
Humerus :: Humerus (n.) The bone of the brachium, or upper part of the arm or fore limb..
Supraoccipital :: Supraoccipital (a.) Situated over, or in the upper part of, the occiput; of or pertaining to the supraoccipital bone..
Bone :: Bone (v. t.) To steal; to take possession of.
Oyster :: Oyster (n.) A name popularly given to the delicate morsel contained in a small cavity of the bone on each side of the lower part of the back of a fowl.
Rib :: Rib (n.) One of the curved bones attached to the vertebral column and supporting the lateral walls of the thorax.
Ethmoid :: Ethmoid (n.) The ethmoid bone.
Facet :: Facet (n.) A smooth circumscribed surface; as, the articular facet of a bone..
Shin :: Shin (n.) The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone; the lower part of the leg; the shank.
Pectinal :: Pectinal (n.) A fish whose bone/ resemble comb teeth.
Suprafoliaceous :: Supra-ethmoid (a.) Above, or on the dorsal side of, the ethmoid bone or cartilage..
Buttonmold :: Buttonmold (n.) A disk of bone, wood, or other material, which is made into a button by covering it with cloth..
Osteocope :: Osteocope (n.) Pain in the bones; a violent fixed pain in any part of a bone.
Glenoid :: Glenoid (a.) Having the form of a smooth and shallow depression; socketlike; -- applied to several articular surfaces of bone; as, the glenoid cavity, or fossa, of the scapula, in which the head of the humerus articulates..
Os :: Os (n.) A bone.
Mandibular :: Mandibular (n.) The principal mandibular bone; the mandible.
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