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Of or pertaining to the shoulder and the hyoid bone; as, the omohyoid muscle.

In many mammals, an interarticular cartilage, or bone, between the sternum and the clavicle.

Any one of the bony plates which support the gill covers of fishes; an opercular bone.

The principal opercular bone or operculum of fishes.

The principal opercular bone in the upper and posterior part of the gill cover.

The inferior and posterior of the three elements forming the periotic bone.

Of or pertaining to the sphenoid bone and the orbit, or to the orbitosphenoid bone. -- n.

Of or pertaining to the orbitosphenoid bone; orbitosphenoid.

A bone.

The organic basis of bone tissue; the residue after removal of the mineral matters from bone by dilute acid; in embryonic tissue, the substance in which the mineral salts are deposited to form bone; -- called also ostein. Chemically it is the same as collagen.

A little bone.

Composed of bone; resembling bone; capable of forming bone; bony; ossific.

A little bone; as, the auditory ossicles in the tympanum of the ear.

Having small bones.

Containing or yielding bone.

Capable of producing bone; having the power to change cartilage or other tissue into bone.

The formation of bone; the process, in the growth of an animal, by which inorganic material (mainly lime salts) is deposited in cartilage or membrane, forming bony tissue; ostosis.

Changed to bone or something resembling bone; hardened by deposits of mineral matter of any kind; -- said of tissues.

Serving to break bones; bone-breaking.

To form into bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts.