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Within the tongue; -- applied to the glossohyal bone.

A depression in the sphenoid bone; the pituitary fossa.

An epibranchial cartilage or bone.

The upper and outer element of periotic bone, -- in man forming a part of the temporal bone.

An epipharyngeal bone or cartilage.

The end, or other superficial part, of a bone, which ossifies separately from the central portion, or diaphysis.

One of the bones of either the forearm or shank, the epipodialia being the radius, ulna, tibia, and fibula.

Pertaining to a small Wormian bone sometimes present in the human skull between the parietal and the great wing of the sphenoid. -- n.

Situated upon or above the pterygoid bone. -- n.

A cartilage or bone in front of the pubis in some amphibians and other animals.

A median bone connected with the sternum, in many vertebrates; the interclavicle.

The ethmoid bone.

Pertaining to, or in the region of, the ethmoid bone. Ethmoid bone (Anat.), a bone of complicated structure through which the olfactory nerves pass out of the cranium and over which they are largely distributed.

An ethmoturbinal bone.

A genus of perennial, composite herbs including hemp agrimony, boneset, throughwort, etc.

tience is more oft the exercise Of saints, the trial of their fortitude. Milton. Exercise bone (Med.), a deposit of bony matter in the soft tissues, produced by pressure or exertion.

To separate and come off in scales or laminæ, as pieces of carious bone or of bark.

The scaling off of a bone, a rock, or a mineral, etc.; the state of being exfoliated.

Pertaining to a bone or region on each side of the great foremen of the skull. -- n.

To deprive of bones; to take out the bones of; to bone. [Obs.] Bailey.