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The anterior opercular bone in fishes.

A bone or cartilage, of some animals, situated in the middle line in front of the pubic bones.

Situated in front of the sphenoid bone; of or pertaining to the anterior part of the sphenoid bone (i. e., the presphenoid bone). Presphenoid bone (Anat.), the anterior part of the body of the sphenoid bone in front of the basisphenoid. It is usually a separate bone in the young or fetus, but becomes a part of the sphe…

Of or pertaining to the presphenoid bone; presphenoid.

Situated in front of the temporal bone.

A connection, or bond of union, between parties, as to some particular transaction; mutual or successive relationship to the same rights of property.

Any marked prominence or projecting part, especially of a bone; anapophysis.

In front of the auditory capsule; -- applied especially to a bone, or center of ossification, in the periotic capsule. -- n.

The bone of either the upper arm or the thing, the propodialia being the humerus and femur.

Of or pertaining to that which is proximal; as, the proximal bones of a limb. Opposed to distal.

il fishes with winglike appendages. The head and most of the body were covered with large bony plates. See Placodermi.

Of or pertaining to, or designating, a bone between the proötic and epiotic in the dorsal and outer part of the periotic capsule of many fishes. -- n.

Like a bird's wing in form; as, a pterygoid bone.

Of or pertaining to the inner pterygoid plate, or pterygoid bone, and the lower jaw.

Of or pertaining to the pterygoid processes and the palatine bones.

Of, pertaining to, or representing the pterygoid and quadrate bones or cartilages.

Of or pertaining to the pubes; in the region of the pubes; as, the pubic bone; the pubic region, or the lower part of the hypogastric region. See Pubes.

The ventral and anterior of the three principal bones composing either half of the pelvis; sharebone; pubic bone.

nd of chronic laminitis in which there is a growth of soft spongy horn between the coffin bone and the hoof wall. The disease is called pumiced foot, or pumice foot.

pose or design. "Purposive characters." Bastian. Purposive modification of structure in a bone. Owen. It is impossible that the frog should perform actions morepurposive than these. Huxley.