(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.
Carapace
Definition:
(n.) The thick shell or shield which covers the back of the tortoise, or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals.
Example Sentences:
(1) The pigment granules within the erythrophores are dispersed out into the dendritic processes of the cells when the isolated carapace is placed in physiological solution.
(2) Eye withdrawal in the green crab, Carcinus maenas was conditioned by pairing a mild vibration to the carapace as a conditioned stimulus (CS) with a puff of air to one of the eyes as an unconditioned stimulus (US).
(3) In both species, the carapace is heavily pigmented and during the development and translocation of basal cells from the germinal layer of the epidermis, pigment granules migrate towards the surface layers.
(4) A prawn of 15 mm carapace length could not eliminate all snails.
(5) She said: "Under the carapace of glittering, hedonistic celebrity, the ooze of a very different and more dangerous lifestyle has seeped out for all to see."
(6) Population experiments demonstrated that a prawn of 25 mm carapace length could eliminate 95% of a population of 80 snails in a 20-1 aquarium within 20 days and all snails by day 40.
(7) Moir also called for "the truth" to emerge "about the exact circumstances of his strange and lonely death" and said: "Once again, under the carapace of glittering, hedonistic celebrity, the ooze of a very different and more dangerous lifestyle has seeped out for all to see".
(8) Crustacean remains in one gut content sample included carapace fragments bearing distinctive surface features found on the smaller toxic xanthids, Actaeodes tomentosus and Pilodius areolatus.
(9) Based on the low numbers of osteoblasts and osteoclasts in dermal bone of both populations of adult desert tortoises, it appears that the peripheral carapace is relatively inert with very low levels of dermal bone turnover.
(10) With the formation of the compound eye and the appearance of the carapace and other body-like structures, marking morphogenesis to the zoeal stage, embryos showed the beginning of a continuous and dramatic increase in ecdysteroid concentrations sustained until larval hatchout.
(11) Except for mild osteomalacia, carapaces of adult desert tortoises from the grazed habitat were relatively normal.
(12) For some substances (cadmium, bichromate, metavanadate, and bromide) individual growth (carapace length) was found to be a sensitive parameter.
(13) Mann called the series What Remains, her point being that death is not an end, that nature goes on doing its work long after the body has become a carapace.
(14) The three muscles on each side of the head share a common origin on the carapace and insert dorsally, laterally and ventrally on the eye.
(15) To circumvent this drawback in the application of morphometrics to describe 2 dimensional shapes, an alternative procedure based on Fourier analysis was developed and applied to the turtle carapace.
(16) Yet what the episode really shows is how much pressure MPs are under without the protective carapace of unity.
(17) Prawns greater than 22 mm carapace length could consume snails of any size.
(18) The electroretinogram (ERG) waveform of Petrolisthes elongatus is biphasic and transient and does not change with age (monitored as carapace length and weight of the individual).
(19) Based on these results, we propose that dermal bone of the peripheral carapace is a poor sample site for evaluating the effects of dietary or environmental conditions on calcified tissues in desert tortoises.
(20) He inherited a semi-proportional assembly electoral system that masks a core of partisan pro-Labour self-interest under a carapace of pluralism.