(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.
Knacker
Definition:
(n.) One who makes knickknacks, toys, etc.
(n.) One of two or more pieces of bone or wood held loosely between the fingers, and struck together by moving the hand; -- called also clapper.
(n.) a harness maker.
(n.) One who slaughters worn-out horses and sells their flesh for dog's meat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Maybe it's left him knackered, but when we talk in the backroom of an ad hoc campaign office in the small agricultural town of Thrapston, he answers most questions using standard-issue candidate's boilerplate.
(2) The boys have just done eight gigs in nine nights and they're knackered.
(3) Prey is a gritty, concretey number, and while Reinhardt may be the least-kempt of the cast, every character drinks too much, looks constantly knackered and is therefore entirely believable.
(4) As Petra, another member of the team, finishes mopping the floors, and Andrew, the shift manager, cashes up the tills in the office downstairs, I slump on to a bar stool, knackered.
(5) The broadcaster described feeling like "a sort of knackered version of myself" after the stroke, which left him with mobility issues down his left side.
(6) "And watching the match, Pirlo and most of the Italians looked knackered, even misplacing easy short passes to unmarked colleagues, and either not making runs or making runs that were lazy and easy to catch off-side.
(7) Respected animal welfare organisations have warned governments for several years about the growing trade in knackered horses both between Ireland, the UK, France and Belgium, and between North and South America, and continental Europe.
(8) 71 min: Dean Windass, who looks knackered, is replaced by Caleb Folan.
(9) I lean on Suárez’s shoulder and tell him I’m knackered.
(10) But one staff member said: "It was like a car that looked good from the outside but it was knackered."
(11) ET 1 min: Both teams look knackered, with the exception of Gattuso on the Milan team, who looks like a Tazmanian devil on amphetamines.
(12) It's set in and around Kansas City 2044, but the future looks, frankly, knackered.
(13) 9.26pm GMT Arsenal substitution: Flamini on for Oxlade-Chamberlain, who looks knackered.
(14) It's feeling physically knackered, such as in the knees from years of standing up day after day.
(15) Real Madrid 3-1 Atlético Madrid (Marcelo ET 28) Atlético are knackered.
(16) "I arrived here just knackered, thinking I don't really want to do this," admits Coogan.
(17) He agreed, saying sitting back and absorbing constant attacks knackers you.
(18) Ministers were knackered and most had already disengaged from their jobs.
(19) Perhaps this is the person she truly wants to be – an ordinary mum, bit knackered, only able to get out of the house because her own mum's doing the babysitting – and was just unlucky to fall in love with Prince William rather than the local butcher.
(20) After all, being sleep deprived makes you miserable, knackered and liable to crash the car.