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Scutellated :: Scutellated (a.) Formed like a plate or salver; composed of platelike surfaces; as, the scutellated bone of a sturgeon..

Hyo- :: Hyo- () A prexif used in anatomy, and generally denoting connection with the hyoid bone or arch; as, hyoglossal, hyomandibular, hyomental, etc..

Tooth :: Tooth (n.) One of the hard, bony appendages which are borne on the jaws, or on other bones in the walls of the mouth or pharynx of most vertebrates, and which usually aid in the prehension and mastication of food..

Spilikin :: Spilikin (n.) One of a number of small pieces or pegs of wood, ivory, bone, or other material, for playing a game, or for counting the score in a game, as in cribbage. In the plural (spilikins.

Parostosis :: Parostosis (n.) Ossification which takes place in purely fibrous tracts; the formation of bone outside of the periosteum.

Chin :: Chin (n.) The exterior or under surface embraced between the branches of the lower jaw bone, in birds..

Backbone :: Backbone (n.) Anything like , or serving the purpose of, a backbone..

Opercle :: Opercle (n.) Any one of the bony plates which support the gill covers of fishes; an opercular bone.

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

Episternum :: Episternum (n.) A median bone connected with the sternum, in many vertebrates; the interclavicle..

Desquamatory :: Desquamatory (n.) An instrument formerly used in removing the laminae of exfoliated bones.

Osteomanty :: Osteomanty (n.) Divination by means of bones.

Achilles' Tendon :: Achilles' tendon (n.) The strong tendon formed of the united tendons of the large muscles in the calf of the leg, an inserted into the bone of the heel; -- so called from the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx..

Ephippium :: Ephippium (n.) A depression in the sphenoid bone; the pituitary fossa.

Post-temporal :: Post-temporal (a.) Situated back of the temporal bone or the temporal region of the skull; -- applied especially to a bone which usually connects the supraclavicle with the skull in the pectoral arch of fishes.

Subcelestial :: Subcaudal (a.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the tail; as, the subcaudal, or chevron, bones..

Ceratohyal :: Ceratohyal (n.) A ceratohyal bone, or cartilage, which, in man, forms one of the small horns of the hyoid..

Postglenoid :: Postglenoid (a.) Situated behind the glenoid fossa of the temporal bone.

Navicular :: Navicular (n.) The navicular bone.

Baleen :: Baleen (n.) Plates or blades of whalebone, from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Balaenoidea) are attached side by side along the upper jaw, and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth..

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