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Collagen :: Collagen (n.) The chemical basis of ordinary connective tissue, as of tendons or sinews and of bone. On being boiled in water it becomes gelatin or glue..

Quadrate :: Quadrate (a.) The quadrate bone.

Strength :: Strength (n.) Power to resist force; solidity or toughness; the quality of bodies by which they endure the application of force without breaking or yielding; -- in this sense opposed to frangibility; as, the strength of a bone, of a beam, of a wall, a rope, and the like..

Ridgebone :: Ridgebone (n.) The backbone.

Parethmoid :: Parethmoid (a.) Near or beside the ethmoid bone or cartilage; -- applied especially to a pair of bones in the nasal region of some fishes, and to the ethmoturbinals in some higher animals..

Scragged :: Scragged (a.) Rough with irregular points, or a broken surface; scraggy; as, a scragged backbone..

Kneepan :: Kneepan (n.) A roundish, flattened, sesamoid bone in the tendon in front of the knee joint; the patella; the kneecap..

Bony :: Bony (a.) Having large or prominent bones.

Endosteum :: Endosteum (n.) The layer of vascular connective tissue lining the medullary cavities of bone.

Whettlebones :: Whettlebones (n. pl.) The vertebrae of the back.

Tarsectomy :: Tarsectomy (n.) The operation of excising one or more of the bones of the tarsus.

Bone :: Bone (v. t.) To steal; to take possession of.

Ossicle :: Ossicle (n.) A little bone; as, the auditory ossicles in the tympanum of the ear..

Hypobranchial :: Hypobranchial (n.) A hypobranchial bone or cartilage.

Exsect :: Exsect (v. t.) The removal by operation of a portion of a limb; particularly, the removal of a portion of a bone in the vicinity of a joint; the act or process of cutting out..

Chine :: Chine (n.) A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking. [See Illust. of Beef.].

Lammergeier :: Lammergeier (n.) A very large vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), which inhabits the mountains of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. When full-grown it is nine or ten feet in extent of wings. It is brownish black above, with the under parts and neck rusty yellow; the forehead and crown white; the sides of the head and beard black. It feeds partly on carrion and partly on small animals, which it kills. It has the habit of carrying tortoises and marrow bones to a great height, and dropping them

Splay :: Splay (v. t.) To dislocate, as a shoulder bone..

Interosseous :: Interosseous (a.) Situated between bones; as, an interosseous ligament..

Cheek :: Cheek (n.) The cheek bone.

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