bone-headed dinosaur | bipedal herbivorous dinosaurs with bony crowns |
wishbone wishing bone | the furcula of a domestic fowl |
button quail button-quail bustard quail hemipode | small quail-like terrestrial bird of southern Eurasia and northern Africa that lacks a hind toe, classified with wading birds but inhabits grassy plains |
striped button quail Turnix sylvatica | a variety of button quail having stripes |
splint bone | a rudimentary metacarpal or metatarsal bone on either side of the cannon bone in the leg of a horse or related animal |
pastern fetter bone | the part between the fetlock and the hoof |
cannon bone | greatly developed metatarsal or metacarpal bone in the shank or cannon part of the leg in hoofed mammals |
bone-ash cup cupel refractory pot | a small porous bowl made of bone ash used in assaying to separate precious metals from e.g. lead |
bone china | fine porcelain that contains bone ash |
button | a round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through buttonholes |
button | any artifact that resembles a button |
buttonhole button hole | a hole through which buttons are pushed |
coat button | a button on a coat |
horn button | a button that you press to activate the horn of an automobile |
mouse button | a push button on the mouse |
panic button | a button to push in order to summon help in case of an emergency, the circuit is operated by a panic button, when he saw that I was angry he hit the panic button |
push button push button | an electrical switch operated by pressing, the elevator was operated by push buttons, the push beside the bed operated a buzzer at the desk |
push-button radio | a radio receiver that can be tuned by pressing buttons |
release button | a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism |
reset button | a push button that you press to activate the reset mechanism |
shirt button | a button on a shirt |
bone age | a person's age measured by matching their bone development (as shown by X rays) with bone development of an average person of known chronological age |
bone ivory pearl off-white | a shade of white the color of bleached bones |
bone os | rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates |
bare bone | bone stripped of flesh |
cuboid bone | the cube shaped bone on the outer side of the tarsus |
carpal bone carpal wrist bone | any of the eight small bones of the wrist of primates |
scaphoid bone os scaphoideum navicular | the largest wrist bone on the thumb side |
lunate bone semilunar bone os lunatum | one of the eight small wrist bones |
triquetral triquetral bone os triquetrum cuneiform bone pyramidal bone | a wrist bone that articulates with the pisiform and hamate and lunate bones |
pisiform pisiform bone os pisiforme | a small wrist bone that articulates only with the triquetral |
trapezium trapezium bone os trapezium | the wrist bone on the thumb side of the hand that articulates with the st and nd metacarpals |
trapezoid trapezoid bone os trapezoideum | the wrist bone between the trapezium and the capitate bones |
capitate capitate bone os capitatum | the wrist bone with a rounded head shape that articulates with the rd metacarpus |
hamate hamate bone unciform bone os hamatum | the wrist bone in line with the th and th fingers |
cartilage bone | any bone that develops within cartilage rather than a fibrous tissue |
cheekbone zygomatic bone zygomatic malar malar bone jugal bone os zygomaticum | the arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek |
coccyx tail bone | the end of the vertebral column in humans and tailless apes |
ethmoid ethmoid bone | one of the eight bones of the cranium, a small bone filled with air spaces that forms part of the eye sockets and the nasal cavity |
hipbone innominate bone | large flaring bone forming one half of the pelvis, made up of the ilium and ischium and pubis |
hyoid hyoid bone os hyoideum | a U-shaped bone at the base of the tongue that supports the tongue muscles |
ischium ischial bone os ischii | one of the three sections of the hipbone, situated below the ilium |
long bone os longum | in limbs of vertebrate animals: a long cylindrical bone that contains marrow |
lower jaw mandible mandibula mandibular bone submaxilla lower jawbone jawbone jowl | the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth |
membrane bone | any bone that develops within membranous tissue without previous cartilage formation, e.g. the clavicle and bones of the skull |
metacarpal metacarpal bone | any bone of the hand between the wrist and fingers |
nasal nasal bone os nasale | an elongated rectangular bone that forms the bridge of the nose |
palatine palatine bone os palatinum | either of two irregularly shaped bones that form the back of the hard palate and helps to form the nasal cavity and the floor of the orbits |
pubis pubic bone os pubis | one of the three sections of the hipbone, together these two bones form the front of the pelvis |
round bone | bones that are round in shape |