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Near to the maxilla or jawbone.

Pertaining to expansions of the ethmoid bone or

Pertaining to expansions of the nasal bone or cartilage.

The alisphenoid bone.

Pertaining to or forming the wing of the sphenoid; relating to a bone in the base of the skull, which in the adult is often consolidated with the sphenoid; as, alisphenoid bone; alisphenoid canal.

oli or little cells, sacs, or sockets. Alveolar processes, the processes of the maxillary bones, containing the sockets of the teeth.

A form of articulation in which the bones are connected by intervening substance admitting slight motion; symphysis.

The union of two or more separate bones to from a single bone; the close union of bones or other structures in various animals.

Fig.: Lean; lank; raw-boned; ungraceful; sharp and stiff in character; as, remarkably angular in his habits and appearance; an angular female. Angular aperture, Angular distance. See Aperture, Distance. -- Angular motion, the motion of a body about a fixed point or fixed axis, as of a planet or pendulum. It is equal t…

The joint which connects the foot with the leg; the tarsus. Ankle bone, the bone of the ankle; the astragalus.

The antorbital bone.

Of or pertaining to a portion of the horn of the hyoid bone.

A marked prominence or process on any part of a bone.

A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes.

A joint or juncture between bones in the skeleton.

Divination by means of small bones or dice.

The ankle bone, or hock bone; the bone of the tarsus which articulates with the tibia at the ankle.

An instrument for cleansing the ear, consisting of a small piece of sponge on an ivory or bone handle.

the blood of his servants. Deut. xxxii. 43. Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold. Milton. He had avenged himself on them by havoc such as England had never before seen. Macaulay.

the body; as, the axial skeleton; or to the axis of any appendage or organ; as, the axial bones. Axial line (Magnetism), the line taken by the magnetic force in passing from one pole of a horseshoe magnet to the other. Faraday.