Definition of bone

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Bone (n.) One of the pieces or parts of an animal skeleton; as, a rib or a thigh bone; a bone of the arm or leg; also, any fragment of bony substance. (pl.) The frame or skeleton of the body..

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Supraocular :: Supraoccipital (n.) The supraoccipital bone.
Ceratohyal :: Ceratohyal (a.) Pertaining to the bone, or cartilage, below the epihyal in the hyoid arch..
Petromastoid :: Petromastoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the petrous and mastoid parts of the temporal bone, periotic..
Bone :: Bone (v. t.) To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery..
Sawbones :: Sawbones (n.) A nickname for a surgeon.
Postorbital :: Postorbital (n.) A postorbital bone or scale.
Ossuary :: Ossuary (n.) A place where the bones of the dead are deposited; a charnel house.
Osteoclasis :: Osteoclasis (n.) The operation of breaking a bone in order to correct deformity.
Extension :: Extension (v. t.) The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.
Suprarenal :: Suprapubic (a.) Situated above, or anterior to, the pubic bone..
Desquamation :: Desquamation (n.) The separation or shedding of the cuticle or epidermis in the form of flakes or scales; exfoliation, as of bones..
Diaphysis :: Diaphysis (n.) The shaft, or main part, of a bone, which is first ossified..
Backbone :: Backbone (n.) Anything like , or serving the purpose of, a backbone..
Ratitae :: Ratitae (n. pl.) An order of birds in which the wings are small, rudimentary, or absent, and the breastbone is destitute of a keel. The ostrich, emu, moa, and apteryx are examples..
Interosseous :: Interosseous (a.) Situated between bones; as, an interosseous ligament..
Jaw :: "Jaw (n.) Hence, also, the bone itself with the teeth and covering..
Nates :: Nates (n. pl.) The umbones of a bivalve shell.
Flesh :: Flesh (n.) The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man and other animals; especially, the muscles..
Entoglossal :: Entoglossal (a.) Within the tongue; -- applied to the glossohyal bone.
Quittor :: Quittor (n.) A chronic abscess, or fistula of the coronet, in a horse's foot, resulting from inflammation of the tissues investing the coffin bone..
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