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long bone

NOUN
  1. in limbs of vertebrate animals: a long cylindrical bone that contains marrow

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  • First, if the shaft of a long bone be hit above the junction of diaphysis and epiphysis, the cancellous tissue in and extending from the medullary cavity is pulverised, and examination of fragments from such fractures gives the impression of the inner aspect having been scraped clean. Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre
  • Bone of the cancellous type is found in the long bones, sternum, vertebrae and between layers of the cranium bones. We���re Born With 270 Bones. As Adults We Have 206
  • When the bones were brought to the Montana State University's lab, it was noticed that ‘some parts deep inside the long bone of the leg had not completely fossilized.’
  • Such joints are found between the epiphyses and bodies of long bones, between the occipital and the sphenoid at, and for some years after, birth, and between the petrous portion of the temporal and the jugular process of the occipital. III. Syndesmology. 3. Classification of Joints
  • Slide 11: 98) A trigger finger is 103) In the following types of fractures of long bones, a. an inflamed index finger crepitus can be elicited only in: b. an atrophic index finger in a median nerve palsy a. Fissures c. due to stenosing tenovaginitis affecting one of the b. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • But the chiefs still practised the old ways, the custom of hunakele, and hid the bones of the aliis where no men should find them and make fish-hooks of their jaws or arrow heads of their long bones for the slaying of little mice in sport. THE BONES OF KAHEKILI
  • There is a long bone, termed ‘metatarsal’, answering to the metacarpal, for each digit; and the ‘tarsus’, which corresponds with the carpus, presents four short polygonal bones in Essays
  • At the cancellated ends of the long bones, particularly the upper end of the femur and humerus, and the lower end of the radius, it is not uncommon for one fragment to be _impacted_ or wedged into the substance of the other (Fig. 28). Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
  • Most of what I found were unidentifiable broken sections of long bones, but I did find a bird femur (thigh bone) and a nice rodent astragalus (ankle bone).
  • The long bone referred to -- called the tarsus -- corresponds to the instep of the human foot, that is, the foot proper, while the joint which extends backward, forming an angle with the next large bone, is really the bird's heel. Our Bird Comrades
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