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Definitions of bone:
  • noun:   a shade of white the color of bleached bones
  • noun:   rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates
  • noun:   the porous calcified substance from which bones are made
  • verb:   remove the bones from
    Example: "Bone the turkey before roasting it"
  • verb:   study intensively, as before an exam
    Example: "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam"
  • adjective:   consisting of or made up of bone
  • name:  A surname (common: 1 in 20000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #2635)



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cartilage vertebrate calcium-phosphate scaffold connective-tissue skeleton cortical-substance trabecular-bone trabecula lamella orderly periosteum marrow remodel endosteum osteoid phosphate hydroxyapatite collagen adhesion apatite stimulus lacuna microscopic fracture osteoblast insulin hormone morphogenesis multinucleate intracellular resorption compartment osteoclast parathyroid-hormone prostaglandin odf intramembranous-ossification boney woven-bone intracartilaginous proliferate articular-cartilage sequestered-3 calcify skeletal osteoporosis metabolic-disease parathyroid-gland anorexia-nervosa immunosuppressive-therapy transplanting arthritis calcium-metabolism skull pelvis-3 x-ray puberty sex-hormone eunuchs growth-hormone blood phagocytes menopause-4 exercise calcium joints fowl bone-up bare-bones chilled-to-the-bone cut-to-the-bone feel-in-one-s-bones funny-bone make-no-bones-about pull-a-boner roll-the-bones skin-and-bones work-one-s-fingers-to-the-bone bone-marrow rheumatoid-arthritis osteoarthritis rickets tumour-medicine-in-encyclopedia blade-bone wishbone lucky-bone cramp osteon flat-bone irregular-bone long-bone short-bone osseous-tissue bone-disambiguation gray-s-anatomy femur organ endoskeleton red-blood-cell