(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.
Vomer
Definition:
(n.) A bone, or one of a pair of bones, beneath the ethmoid region of the skull, forming a part a part of the partition between the nostrils in man and other mammals.
(n.) The pygostyle.
Example Sentences:
(1) A case of brown-tumor of the vomer in a 21-year-old woman is described.
(2) Growth between the vomer and premaxilla was recorded in every case, with growth being especially marked during the first year of life.
(3) We report a three-year-old boy who presented with an oral chord-like structure that extended from the base of the tongue up to the posterior part of the vomer.
(4) A posteriorly based readily accessible vomer flap is raised on the cleft side and used as nasal lining for the palatal mucoperiosteal flap on the non-cleft side.
(5) The surgical intervention led to the following complications: 1) deformation of the nasal septum in the vestibule area (11 patients); 2) perforation of the nasal septum of atrophic origin (15 patients); 3) saddle-like deformation of external nose (7 patients); 4) vibration of the nasal septum which occurred in most patients after total resection of the cartilage and vomer.
(6) Given that the septum plays a fundamental role in the projection of the nasomaxilliary complex, it is clear that certain surgical rules must be applied: the perichondrium must be left intact, no wide cartilaginous resections must be made, the areas of contact between the septum, the vomer, and the perpendicular lamina of the ethmoid must be reconstituted, and finally, the remodeled cartilage must be repositioned.
(7) Antero-posterior retardation of upper jaw growth became evident in all five dogs with surgically placed clefts and extirpation of the vomer within 8 weeks following surgery.
(8) The photoelasticimetric procedure and pressure load to the model were used for the determination of possible pressure tensions, if any, occurring during mastification, namely the share of the vomer in the transfer of these tensions to the base of the cranium.
(9) Removal of the vomer is an essential part of this procedure in order to open and enlarge the choanae.
(10) The vomer was resected via a palatal flap in four 42-day-old beagle pups; four unoperated dogs served as controls.
(11) Radiographically, the frontal and nasal bones dorsally and the vomer and palatine process of the incisive bone ventrally do not completely obscure the nasal septum and its covering mucous membrane.
(12) This modality defines the full anatomic abnormality of bony choanal atresia: medial bowing and thickening of the lateral wall of the nasal cavity, enlargement of the vomer, and fusion of these elements.
(13) Histological serial sections of 6 postmortem nasal cavities showed that the high laminae of the vomer prevent any caudal dislocation of the septal cartilage.
(14) Therapeutic factors associated with good outcomes were the employment of a vomer flap to close the anterior palate, and poor outcomes with primary bone grafting and with active presurgical orthopedics.
(15) Findings on CT included: thickening of the vomer, bowing of the lateral wall of the nasal cavity and fusion of bony elements in the choanal region.
(16) The growth pattern implied that a forward, downward sliding of the vomer must take place in relation to the ethmoid bone and the cartilaginous septum.
(17) The author's original approach to the early repair of cleft palate which consists in the use of the extended vomer flap is presented.
(18) Dimensions of certain parts of the orofacial skeleton and vomer were obtained by a bioanthropologic measurement for which native preparations of whole and parasagitally sawed up skulls were used.
(19) Microscopic examination of the healing wound showed granulation tissue and contractile fibroblasts, which were more numerous at the premaxilla-vomer suture than at the posterior site.
(20) The sample consisted of 51 patients and 22 of them had undergone surgical treatment which included vomer flap and pushback palatal repair, while the remaining 29 patients were treated with a routine characterized by delayed closure of the hard palate.