(n.) The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and 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.
(n.) Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
(n.) Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music.
(n.) Dice.
(n.) Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset.
(n.) Fig.: The framework of anything.
(v. t.) To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery.
(v. t.) To put whalebone into; as, to bone stays.
(v. t.) To fertilize with bone.
(v. t.) To steal; to take possession of.
(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that during exposure to simulated microgravity early signs of osteoporosis occur in the tibial spongiosa and that changes in the spongy matter of tubular bones and vertebrae are similar and systemic.
(2) In conclusion, the efficacy of free tissue transfer in the treatment of osteomyelitis is geared mainly at enabling the surgeon to perform a wide radical debridement of infected and nonviable soft tissue and bone.
(3) This bone could not be degraded by human monocytes in vitro as well as control bone (only 54% of control; P less than 0.003).
(4) It is suggested that the Japanese may have lower trabecular bone mineral density than Caucasians but may also have a lower threshold for fracture of the vertebrae.
(5) Osteoporosis is characterized by a reduction in bone density.
(6) The half-life of 45Ca in the various calcium fractions of both types of bone was 72 hours in both the control and malnourished groups except the calcium complex portion of the long bone of the control group, which was about 100 hours.
(7) We have addressed the effect of late intensification with autologous bone marrow transplantation on SCLC through a randomized clinical trial.
(8) Our results indicate that increasing the delay for more than 8 days following irradiation and TCD syngeneic BMT leads to a rapid loss of the ability to achieve alloengraftment by non-TCD allogeneic bone marrow.
(9) Decreased MU stops additions of bone by modeling and increases removal of bone next to marrow by remodeling.
(10) Pokeweed mitogen-stimulated rat spleen cells were identified as a reliable source of rat burst-promoting activity (PBA), which permitted development of a reproducible assay for rat bone marrow erythroid burst-forming units (BFU-E).
(11) The fibrous matrix and cartilage formed within the nonunion site transformed to osteoid and bone with increased vascularity.
(12) Periosteal chondroma is an uncommon benign cartilagenous lesion, and its importance lies primarily in its characteristic radiographic and pathologic appearance which should be of assistance in the differential diagnosis of eccentric lesions of bones.
(13) The compressive strength of bone is proportional to the square of the apparent density and to the strain rate raised to the 0.06 power.
(14) Furthermore echography revealed a collateral subperiosteal edema and a moderate thickening of extraocular muscles and bone periostitis, a massive swelling of muscles and bone defects in subperiosteal abscesses as well as encapsulated abscesses of the orbit and a concomitant retrobulbar neuritis in orbital cellulitis.
(15) Survival was independent of the type of clinical presentation and protocol employed but was correlated with the stage (P less than 0.0005), symptoms (P less than 0.025), bulky disease (P less than 0.025) and bone marrow involvement (P less than 0.025).
(16) There was however no difference in the cross-sectional studies and no significant deleterious effect detected of tobacco use on forearm bone mineral content.
(17) During the digestion of these radiolabeled bacteria, murine bone marrow macrophages produced low-molecular-weight substances that coeluted chromatographically with the radioactive cell wall marker.
(18) According to the finite element analysis, the design bases of fixed restorations applied in the teeth accompanied with the absorption of the alveolar bone were preferred.
(19) At consolidation, the distraction area was composed of lamellar trabecular and partly woven bone.
(20) Periodontal disease activity is defined clinically by progressive loss of probing attachment and radiographically by progressive loss of alveolar bone.
Bowne
Definition:
(v. t.) To make ready; to prepare; to dress.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bown's email prompted an angry response from a number of MEPs, insiders said.
(2) Ukip said: "Alan Bown is an extremely generous donor to Ukip and is one of 16 members of the party's NEC.
(3) Another leaked email shows that the party's immigration spokesman, Gerard Batten, warned Ukip officials that he and other MEPs could face jail if they carried out Bown's demands.
(4) Photograph: Jane Bown Le Carré, however, said that "where Bingham believed that uncritical love of the intelligence services was synonymous with love of country, I came to believe that such love should be examined.
(5) Updated at 11.44pm GMT 11.29pm GMT Paul Bownes (@Sedona_Red) Is the brother of @ lengeldavid doing the signing of the anthem at the Super Bowl?!
(6) Two energy states for *CO are observed by FT-IR, which are altered in frequency by 94% and 88% of the difference from the ground-state heme CO toward free CO gas [Alben, J. O., Beece, D., Bowne, S. F., Doster, W., Eisenstein, L. Frauenfelder, H., Good, D., McDonald, J. D., Marden, M. C., Moh, P. P., Reinisch, L., Reynolds, A. H., Shyamsundar, E., & Yue, K. T. (1982) Proc.
(7) Jane Bown remembers the challenges of photographing them: "One child screamed and screamed and screamed.
(8) But Bown says his polling challenges the findings of polling by Lord Ashcroft, the former Conservative deputy chairman, suggesting Ukip is weakening Tory chances of an overall majority, and is only likely to put Ed Miliband into Number 10.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cilla Black by Jane Bown This was the era of the boom in beat music on Merseyside, and Cilla regularly attended clubs such as the Cavern and the Iron Door.
(10) Jane Bown Jane Bown’s shot of Marc Chagall In 1967 I was living in Sevenoaks, Kent, when I somehow found out that Marc Chagall was going to be visiting Tudeley, which was close by.
(11) Photograph: Jane Bown for the Observer After Sting has showered and changed into a T-shirt and combats that look exactly the same as the ones he was wearing before, we walk to a nearby café and sit on the open terrace, facing each other across a wooden picnic table.
(12) JS 27 March 1966: Bridget Riley poses with one of her influential works Bridget Riley Photograph: Jane Bown for the Observer Jane Bown's portrait of Bridget Riley, taken for a piece entitled The New Isms of Art, is one of the numerous black-and-white portraits for which the photographer is celebrated.
(13) The polling was commissioned by Ukip donor Alan Bown and is one of a series to look at how Ukip is faring in key marginals.
(14) Two weeks after the email exchange, some MEPs met Bown, Farage and Stuart Wheeler at the Farmers Club in Whitehall, where they were informed that they were each under pressure to increase contributions to the party.
(15) Bown's proposals prompted a furious response from the party's MEPs, who feared they would be at risk of breaking the law if they diverted funds.
(16) But polling conducted for Alan Bown, the Ukip donor, suggests Ukip voters are not just ex-Tories, and many of those who have defected from the Conservatives will never return.
(17) Photograph: Jane Bown for the Observer In a world of nods and winks across Whitehall and St James’s, the line between the fourth estate and the defence of the realm was indistinct.
(18) Dr Stephanie Bown of the society said: "Historically, patients have had confidence in their GP to look after their sensitive information.
(19) Divided into four sections – "Leisure", "The Arts", "Our Changing Society" and "The World at Large" – the dummy featured photographs by Campbell as well as Jane Bown, Gerry Cranham and Robert Freeman.
(20) 1+9+8+2 (1982) was their fourth and final chart-topping album, and saw Pete Kircher listed as the new drummer and Andy Bown, already a regular Quo sideman, billed as keyboard player.