Word Meanings - OSTEOLOGY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The science which treats of the bones of the vertebrate skeleton.

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• SKELETON
  The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal. Note: The more or less firm or hardened framework of an invertebrate animal. Note: In a wider sense, the skeleton includes the whole connective-
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• BONESET
  A medicinal plant, the thoroughwort . Its properties are diaphoretic and tonic.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• VERTEBRATE
  One of the Vertebrata.
• VERTEBRATE; VERTEBRATED
  Having a backbone, or vertebral column, containing the spinal marrow, as man, quadrupeds, birds, amphibia, and fishes.
• SKELETONIZER
  Any small moth whose larva eats the parenchyma of leaves, leaving the skeleton; as, the apple-leaf skeletonizer.
• SKELETONIZE
  To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton. Pop. Sci. Monthly.
• BONESETTER
  One who sets broken or dislocated bones; -- commonly applied to one, not a regular surgeon, who makes an occupation of setting bones. -- Bone"set*ting, n.
• SCIENCE
  1. Knowledge; lnowledge of principles and causes; ascertained truth of facts. If we conceive God's or science, before the creation, to be extended to all and every part of the world, seeing everything as it is, . . . his science or sight from all
• BONESHAW
  Sciatica.
• INVERTEBRATE
  Destitute of a backbone; having no vertebræ; of or pertaining to the Invertebrata. -- n.
• WHETTLEBONES
  The vertebræ of the back. Dunglison.
• SCLEROSKELETON
  That part of the skeleton which is developed in tendons, ligaments, and aponeuroses.
• PRESCIENCE
  Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight. God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. J. Edwards.
• RACKABONES
  A very lean animal, esp. a horse.
• INVERTEBRATED
  Having no backbone; invertebrate.
• OMNISCIENCE
  The quality or state of being omniscient; -- an attribute peculiar to God. Dryden.
• SAWBONES
  A nickname for a surgeon.
• UNSCIENCE
  Want of science or knowledge; ignorance. If that any wight ween a thing to be otherwise than it is, it is not only unscience, but it is deceivable opinion. Chaucer.
• NAPIER'S BONES; NAPIER'S RODS
  A set of rods, made of bone or other material, each divided into nine spaces, and containing the numbers of a column of the multiplication table; -- a contrivance of Baron Napier, the inventor of logarithms, for facilitating the operations
• LAZYBONES
  A lazy person.
• CONSCIENCE
  consciens, p.pr. of conscire to know, to be conscious; con- + scire 1. Knowledge of one's own thoughts or actions; consciousness. The sweetest cordial we receive, at last, Is conscience of our virtuous actions past. Denham. 2. The faculty, power,
• CROSSBONES
  A representation of two of the leg bones or arm bones of a skeleton, laid crosswise, often surmounted with a skull, and serving as a symbol of death. Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrios emblems of mortality. Hawthorne.
• CONSCIENCED
  Having a conscience. "Soft-conscienced men." Shak.
• DERMOSKELETON
  See EXOSKELETON