(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.
Pestle
Definition:
(n.) An implement for pounding and breaking or braying substances in a mortar.
(n.) A constable's or bailiff's staff; -- so called from its shape.
(n.) The leg and leg bone of an animal, especially of a pig; as, a pestle of pork.
(v. t. & i.) To pound, pulverize, bray, or mix with a pestle, or as with a pestle; to use a pestle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Crush the pistachios with a mortar and pestle, and set aside, then finely crush the cardamom seeds.
(2) No matter how much you enjoy cooking, you definitely won't need a mortar or a pestle.
(3) One product failed to release its chlorpheniramine even when ground in a mortar and pestle in HCl solution, but did release drug in H3PO4 solution.
(4) The Chelex resin beads were ground in a mortar-pestle to form ground Chelex resin beads.
(5) 2 Mash the preserved lemon – flesh and skin – in a pestle and mortar and place in a glass with the lime juice, syrup and mint.
(6) Patterns of prosthetic failure included fracture, fraying, and compressive deformation or rotary wear ("motar and pestle") of the silicone radial head; a prosthetic stem fracture was also present.
(7) This system allows the bone cartilage on the surface to receive an even impact on the whole section through the piston-like action of the pressure pestle, thus making it possible for the crushed cartilage to be evenly extended in all directions.
(8) The only way to prepare high molecular weight rapidly labelled RNA and polysomes was to grind freeze-dried cells together with kieselguhr with a mortar and pestle.
(9) Put all the ingredients for the sauce in a mortar, add a quarter-teaspoon of salt, and pound with a pestle to a rough paste.
(10) The data show that a rigorous washing routine must be followed to achieve a "clean" mortar and pestle.
(11) It was shown that encapsulated cells dried with acetone and ground to a fine powder with a mortar and pestle retain their capsules.
(12) The best type of seaweed to use is "aonori" flakes, but most dried seaweed can be ground in a pestle and mortar.
(13) Peel and mash the garlic with a pestle and mortar or in a blender with the egg yolk, olive oil, vinegar, mustard and harissa.
(14) Three different methods of tissue processing have been assessed: (i) freeze-clamping (-196 degrees C), using grooved, aluminium tongs which produce frozen cylinders of tissue (3 mm diameter) which fit directly into esr tubes; (ii) grinding of freeze-clamped tissue with a porcelain pestle and mortar; (iii) lyophilization of ground, freeze-clamped, tissue.
(15) The anvil has a rounded surface enclosed by cylindrical walls, while the pressure pestle functions as a piston within the cylindrical walls.
(16) The pestle, rubbing against the gutta-percha inside the amalgam capsule, generates enough frictional heat to blend the gutta-percha and the eucalyptol.
(17) 3 Put the cardamom pods in a pestle and mortar and bash until the pods split.
(18) With the microblending technique a mean of 9.4 green plants and 0.4 albino plants were regenerated per plated anther while a mean of only 2.8 green and 0.17 albino plants per anther were regenerated from microspores isolated after pestle maceration of the anthers.
(19) Roughly crush the peppercorns and fennel using a pestle and mortar.
(20) 2 In a pestle and mortar (or using a large knife) make the garlic into a paste by squashing it into a little salt.