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OSTEAL |
Bone like |
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OSSIFY |
Became bone like |
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OSSIFIED |
Became bone like |
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PTERYGOID |
Like a bird's wing in form; as, a pterygoid bone. |
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PETROUS |
Like stone; hard; stony; rocky; as, the petrous part of
the temporal bone. |
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CLINOID |
Like a bed; -- applied to several processes on the inner
side of the sphenoid bone. |
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COTYLOID |
Shaped like a cup; as, the cotyloid cavity, which
receives the head of the thigh bone. |
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NAVICULAR |
Shaped like a boat; cymbiform; scaphoid; as, the
navicular glumes of most grasses; the navicular bone. |
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OSTEODENTINE |
A hard substance, somewhat like bone, which is
sometimes deposited within the pulp cavity of teeth. |
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SCUTELLATED |
Formed like a plate or salver; composed of platelike
surfaces; as, the scutellated bone of a sturgeon. |
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STRENGTH |
...opposed to frangibility; as, the
strength of a bone, of a beam, of a wall, a rope, and the like. ... |
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BRUSH |
... material,
set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used
for various purposes, as in removing dust from clothes, laying... |
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PYRROL |
A nitrogenous base found in coal tar, bone oil, and other
distillates of organic substances, and also produced synthetically as a
colorless liq... |
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CLAVICLE |
The collar bone, which is joined at one end to the
scapula, or shoulder blade, and at the other to the sternum, or
breastbone. In man each clav... |
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TESSERA |
...like
purposes; also, a similar piece of ivory, bone, wood, etc., used as a
ticket of admission to theaters, or as a certificate for successful
... |