(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.
Herringbone
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or like, the spine of a herring; especially, characterized by an arrangement of work in rows of parallel lines, which in the alternate rows slope in different directions.
Example Sentences:
(1) The herringbone pattern was associated with a more favorable prognosis than the malignant fibrous histiocytoma pattern.
(2) Modelling and conformational analysis of single chains using the virtual bond approach lead to two possible models for the crystalline helix: 'herringbone' versus 'comb-like'.
(3) Ultrastructurally, metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) is marked by characteristic features such as herringbone, prismatic and tufaceous patterns which are typically encountered within oligodendrocytes of the central nervous system (CNS) and in Schwann cells (PNS).
(4) Ice structure in collagen gels consisted predominantly of long, parallel crystals in the herringbone pattern.
(5) A gentle introduction is the ride to the chapel of Saint Laurent in the neighbouring hamlet of Maâ, past typical Landais houses built in a herringbone-pattern brick, with a gently sloping roof that almost touches the ground.
(6) The actin polymer, like the thin filaments of muscle, is known to be polarized as demonstrated by the well known "HMM decoration" technique to give a "herringbone" pattern pointing in one direction.
(7) Invariant aromatic residues close-pack at the bottom of the binding-site beta-barrel with their ring planes oriented perpendicularly in the characteristic "herringbone" packing mode.
(8) The lead foil of dental x-ray film packets may cause a number of artifacts; especially well known are the "tractor treads" and "herringbone patterns" following a backward filmpositioning in the patient's mouth.
(9) In a herringbone milking parlour, teat cup liners were deliberately contaminated in turn with Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Streptococcus agalactiae and Sterp uberis.
(10) An electron microscopic examination of the accumulated metachromatic lipid granules showed various structures such as concentric lamellar, tuffstone, herringbone and hexagonal honeycomb appearances, and some ultrastructural differences between the nervous system and other organs.
(11) The characteristic storiform cellular arrangement of DFSP was replaced by long, gently sweeping fascicles of spindle cells that intersected at various angles, forming the so-called herringbone pattern.
(12) The collagen of the horns is organized into discrete bundles that are separated from one another by loose connective tissue septa, while that of the body is arranged in a "herringbone" pattern; no septa are present in the body.
(13) A processing artefact is described that is similar in appearance to the tractor-tread (or herringbone) pattern seen on an intra-oral dental radiograph that has been exposed the wrong way round in the mouth.
(14) The previous timber floors would have been removed and replaced with herringbone oak floor with inset rugs, and stone walls replaced with white Carrara marble.
(15) herringbone road marking, flashing beacon, chevron, and post delineator) were evaluated in a driving simulator.
(16) The apparatus developed to effect this back-flushing for a particular herringbone parlour is described, with details of its routine use during milking.
(17) The hairpin molecules pack in the crystal in herringbone columns in a manner that accounts well for the observed relative crystal growth rates in a, b and c directions.
(18) The solid spindle growth pattern assumed various configurations, including fascicular areas, storiform and herringbone formations, angiofibroma and hemangiopericytoma-like areas, synovial sarcoma-like areas, and neural-type palisading, thus simulating a variety of soft-tissue neoplasms.
(19) The resultant polymers showing both decorated and undecorated portions were examined and found to consist of a large majority of "spears" i.e., the added undecorated polymer extended in the direction opposite to that direction pointed by the "herringbone" pattern.
(20) Highly cellular tumors with a herringbone-pattern must be differentiated from primarily extrahepatic fibrosarcomas or myosarcomas, and highly cellular solid or medullary tumors from metastasis from a carcinoma or lymphoma.