Bone
(n.) The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine |
Bone
(n.) One of the pieces or parts of an animal skeleton |
Bone
(n.) Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace. |
Bone
(n.) Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music. |
Bone
(n.) Dice. |
Bone
(n.) Whalebone |
Bone
(n.) Fig.: The framework of anything. |
Bone
(v. t.) To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery. |
Bone
(v. t.) To put whalebone into |
Bone
(v. t.) To fertilize with bone. |
Bone
(v. t.) To steal |
Bone
(v. t.) To sight along an object or set of objects, to see if it or they be level or in line, as in carpentry, masonry, and surveying. |
Cannon bone
() See Canon Bone. |
Canon bone
() The shank bone, or great bone above the fetlock, in the fore and hind legs of the horse and allied animals, corresponding to the middle metacarpal or metatarsal bone of most mammals. See Horse. |
Collar bone
() The clavicle. |
Compact
(p. p. & a) Joined or held together |
Compact
(p. p. & a) Composed or made |
Compact
(p. p. & a) Closely or firmly united, as the particles of solid bodies |
Compact
(p. p. & a) Brief |
Compact
(v. t.) To thrust, drive, or press closely together |
Compact
(v. t.) To unite or connect firmly, as in a system. |
Compact
(n.) An agreement between parties |
Cortical
(a.) Belonging to, or consisting of, bark or rind |
Cuttle bone
() The shell or bone of cuttlefishes, used for various purposes, as for making polishing powder, etc. |
Rewel bone
() An obsolete phrase of disputed meaning, -- perhaps, smooth or polished bone. |
Rowel bone
() See rewel bone. |
Ruell bone
() See rewel bone. |
Schwann's white substance
() The substance of the medullary sheath. |
Substance
(n.) That which underlies all outward manifestations |
Substance
(n.) The most important element in any existence |
Substance
(n.) Body |
Substance
(n.) Material possessions |
Substance
(n.) Same as Hypostasis, 2. |
Substance
(v. t.) To furnish or endow with substance |
Tissue
(n.) A woven fabric. |
Tissue
(n.) A fine transparent silk stuff, used for veils, etc. |
Tissue
(n.) One of the elementary materials or fibres, having a uniform structure and a specialized function, of which ordinary animals and plants are composed |
Tissue
(n.) Fig.: Web |
Tissue
(v. t.) To form tissue of |
| substance | the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists, DNA is the substance of our genes |
| substance | a particular kind or species of matter with uniform properties, shigella is one of the most toxic substances known to man |
substance abuse
drug abuse
habit | excessive use of drugs |
| embryonic tissue | tissue in an embryo |
| bone-headed dinosaur | bipedal herbivorous dinosaurs with bony crowns |
wishbone
wishing bone | the furcula of a domestic fowl |
| 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 |
audio CD
audio compact disc | compact discs used to reproduce sound (voice and music) |
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 |
CD-R
compact disc recordable
CD-WO
compact disc write-once | a compact disc on which you can write only once and thereafter is read-only memory |
CD-ROM
compact disc read-only memory | a compact disk that is used with a computer (rather than with an audio system), a large amount of digital information can be stored and accessed but it cannot be altered by the user |
compact
powder compact | a small cosmetics case with a mirror, to be carried in a woman's purse |
| compact compact car | a small and economical car |
compact disk
compact disc
CD | a digitally encoded recording on an optical disk that is smaller than a phonograph record, played back by a laser |
compact-disk burner
CD burner | recording equipment for making compact disks |
| controlled substance | a drug or chemical substance whose possession and use are controlled by law |
psychoactive drug
mind-altering drug
consciousness-altering drug
psychoactive substance | a drug that can produce mood changes and distorted perceptions |
tissue plasminogen activator
Activase | a thrombolytic agent (trade name Activase) that causes fibrinolysis at the site of a blood clot, used in treating acute myocardial infarction |
| 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 |
epithelium
epithelial tissue | membranous tissue covering internal organs and other internal surfaces of the body |
| body substance | the substance of the body |
| solid body substance | the solid parts of the body |
| tissue | part of an organism consisting of an aggregate of cells having a similar structure and function |
| animal tissue | the tissue in the bodies of animals |
| areolar tissue | fibrous connective tissue with the fibers arranged in a mesh or net |
| interstitial tissue | tissue between the cells of a structure or part in plant or animal |
adipose tissue
fat
fatty tissue | a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy, it also cushions and insulates vital organs, fatty tissue protected them from the severe cold |
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 |