(a.) Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining to bones.
(a.) Having large or prominent bones.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gross deformity, point tenderness and decrease in supination and pronation movements of the forearm were the best predictors of bony injury.
(2) Classically, parathormone is known to increase bony reabsorption and raise serum calcium.
(3) 5 reconstructions of the posterior bony canal wall were moderately sunk in.
(4) The bony elements of both adjacent vertebral bodies are secondarily involved.
(5) Orbital hypertelorism, strictly defined as an increase in bony interorbital distance, is not itself an isolated syndrome, but is instead an anomaly that may occur as either part of a syndrome or malformation sequence.
(6) Most patients had pulmonary metastases, two had bony metastases, and one had metastases in the iliac nodes.
(7) Technetium-99m (V)DMSA has been demonstrated in this study to be a useful imaging agent in patients with MCT, showing uptake in significantly more lesions and with better imaging qualities than [131I]MIBG, and with the ability to detect soft tissue as well as bony metastases.
(8) Much more recently, use of modern CT ("computed tomography") scanning equipment on the London Archaeopteryx's skull has enabled scientists to reconstruct the whole of its bony brain case - and so model the structure of the brain itself.
(9) A major limitation of 3-D CT is its inability to reconstruct the pathology of soft tissues with the same fidelity afforded bony structures.
(10) The diagnosis of cervical injuries may be facilitated by following a logical pattern of analysis searching for abnormalities of alignment and anatomy, of bony integrity, of the cartilage or joint spaces, and of the soft tissues.
(11) All lesions but one were located extradurally, and patients with Stage D2 disease, by virtue of bony metastases, were therefore at greatest risk for development of neurologically compressive disease.
(12) A study was undertaken to assess whether CT measurements of the upper craniofacial skeleton accurately represent the bony region imaged.
(13) Three dimensional images reconstructed from two dimensional CT scans allow improved analysis of complex orbitocranial bony deformities.
(14) The utility of computerized tomography of the chest, in addition to the chest roentgenogram, in assessing the bony involvement of the thoracic tumor is illustrated.
(15) The value of unenhanced CT essentially is limited to the demonstration of bony changes.
(16) Applying the principles of mechanics, the authors have studied and compared the bony structures of the temporo-mandibular joint.
(17) However, separation of the capsule from the bony glenoid can be detected if a joint effusion is present to adequately distend the joint.
(18) Sixty-three per cent of the implants were operated in immediately after tooth extraction, whereas the rest were installed in a healed bony alveolar ridge.
(19) From the survey of another 21 patients having bony abnormalities at the craniovertebral junction, the first type of arterial anomaly described above was seen in 4 patients and associated with failure of segmentation of the embryonic sclerotome such as occipitalization of the atlas or Klippel-Feil syndrome.
(20) Five patients were found to have biopsy-proved extramedullary plasmacytomas without extension from an underlying bony focus.
Gaunt
Definition:
(a.) Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim.
Example Sentences:
(1) On a snowless but chilly afternoon early in the Moscow winter, a 29-year-old man with a gaunt, emaciated face stepped on to the vast expanse of Red Square.
(2) "I am an old lady, and have many grandchildren," she says, pointing to the gaunt, grubby faces baking around her in the tent.
(3) This gaunt, haunting visage (which, in the story, turned out to belong to a deliberately frightening dummy) appeared in Star Trek's end credits almost every week, and was guaranteed to scare the shit out of me whenever it did so.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest He commands the screen even when silent, his pain flitting across that gaunt, ravaged face … Sean Bean in Broken.
(5) In March, Paul Nuttalls called for Johnny and the Baptists to be banned from any venue receiving public subsidy – basically everywhere – for doing a funny song about the Ukips, even though the same places host Jim Davidson, Roy Chubby Brown, John Gaunt and Top Gear; the same week Farage defended the booking of an old-school non-PC comic at the Ukips’ conference saying: “Let people tell their jokes!
(6) Whoops and cheers turned to screams of delight as a gaunt-looking figure mounted the steps and slowly approached the microphone.
(7) It showed a woman of mournfully beautiful gauntness, jacket draped over her shoulder.
(8) Or maybe John of Gaunt had it right: “That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.” Main illustration by Christophe Gowans • Follow the Long Read on Twitter at @gdnlongread , or sign up to the long read weekly email here This article was amended on 21 June 2016.
(9) Furthermore Orange RN which by azo reduction yields ANSA (and aniline) induce the same effect in pigs (Olsen et al., 1973) but not in rats (Gaunt et al., 1971).
(10) Perhaps it is the classically gaunt face, or maybe it is the aquiline nose, but he looks exactly like Don Quixote.
(11) A gaunt-looking Shalit told Egyptian TV that he hoped the deal would promote peace between Israel and the Palestinians and also spoke of his desire to see freedom for thousands of others Palestinians still held by Israel .
(12) Before the attack for which I was arrested, no one in Balochistan knew I had disappeared,” he said, dressed in a navy blue hooded sweatshirt, drinking a coffee with a gaunt look in his eyes as he nervously twisted a rolled up cigarette in his hand.
(13) He was gaunt and frail, living from one morphine dose to the next.
(14) At my father's bedside, I learned what death looks like Read more For many Glaswegians, Possilpark has a reputation, one resented deeply by its residents, built on images of drug addicts and alcoholics clustered on street corners, of gaunt men and women with hardened, ruined faces queuing outside pharmacies at 7.30am for their methadone handouts.
(15) The son of a police officer, Gaunt is hailed as "the monster who roars for coppers" on the website of the Metropolitan police federation .
(16) Abandoned farms dot the landscape: gaunt timber-framed skeletons, their owners given up and gone to California or Seattle.
(17) Bin Laden appeared gaunt and apparently wounded in a video.
(18) The Everton manager, who looks gaunt and shattered after a dreadful festive period, conceded: “We are still in a very bad run and need to turn it around.
(19) They criticise the decision to fund a £15,000-a-month contract with the Gaunt Brothers, a PR company, to use "blitzkrieg" and "guerrilla" tactics was a major error that damaged the Fed's reputation.
(20) It shows Litvinenko gaunt and emaciated on his hospital bed, and is the last image of him alive, the inquiry heard.