(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.
Endomorph
Definition:
(n.) A crystal of one species inclosed within one of another, as one of rutile inclosed in quartz.
Example Sentences:
(1) Measurement of rotational laxity of the knee in 90 degrees flexion showed a statistically significant increase (p less than .001) in external rotation and total rotation in ectomorphs compared to meso-endomorphs.
(2) The ectomorph figure was viewed less negatively than the endomorph figure (p less than .01).
(3) These differences showed the superiority of Chinese boys in ectomorph factor and the Japanese boys in endomorph and mesomorph factors respectively.
(4) It was established that the fatty body mass was within the physiological limits among the students from the group of ectomorphy and from the group with balanced mesomorphy, non-manifested obesity had the subjects with ectomorphic endomorphy, endomorphic mesomorphy and with central somatotype and with manifested obesity--the students with balanced and mesomorphic endomorphy.
(5) The android obese were significantly more mesomorphic and less endomorphic than the gynoid obese (P less than 0.01).
(6) As subjects' self-perceived somatotype deviated from the ideal and moved toward the mesomorphic and endomorphic, body-cathexis scores decreased.
(7) The clinical efficacy of a fixed combination of 10 mg amitriptyline and 0.5 mg flupenthixol (Lu 7410) was studied in 30 (15 endomorphous and 15 psychogenic) depressive patients over 4 weeks.
(8) Psychological tests supported the clinical observations, inasmuch as a significant increase of extroversion and aggressivity was seen in the FPI of endomorphous depressives, while psychogenic depressives revealed decreases in extroversion and sociability.
(9) The ectomorphs had an HVI slightly lower than that of the endomorphs.
(10) The findings indicated that the nonathletes (3.5) were significantly more endomorphic (P less than 0.05) than the soccer players (2.5) and sprinters (2.4).
(11) Females preferred the mesomorph figure (p less than .001) and at least favored the endomorph figure (p less than .001).
(12) Diagnostically decisive is the comprehension of the discretely existing endomorphous cyclothymic fundamental syndrome.
(13) One group was a meso-endomorphic body type (5-6-1) and the other was ectomorphic body type (3-2-4).
(14) However, the nonathlete group exhibited differences only between the mesomorphic and endomorphic groups.
(15) When comparing the relationship between somatotype and longevity, the pooled data of athletes and nonathletes indicated that endomorphs were shorter lived than the other three comparison groups.
(16) Single component ANOVA's revealed that the athletes were significantly less endomorphic (p less than 0.01) than the non-athletes.
(17) Among the groups, the nonathletes (4.02) were most significantly endomorphic (p less than 0.05).
(18) Elite and good runners were also less endomorphic but more ectomorphic than the average runners.
(19) The single highest category for the athletes was mesomorph-ectomorph and for the non-athletes, mesomorphic-endomorph.
(20) While the former is seen predominantly in low doses and in endomorphous depressions, the latter is prominent in higher doses and in psychogenic depressions.