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A knobike protuberance of any part, esp. at the end of a bone or cartilage.

Ulceration of bone; a process in which bone disintegrates and is carried away piecemeal, as distinguished from necrosis, in which it dies in masses.

The keel of the breastbone of birds.

s, including all existing flying birds; -- So called from the carina or keel on the breastbone.

A vault or crypt in connection with a church, used as a repository for human bones disintered from their original burial places; a charnel house.

One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus; a carpale. Carpal angle (Zoöl.), the angle at the last joint of the folded wing of a bird.

One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus; esp. one of the series articulating with the metacarpals.

The wrist; the bones or cartilages between the forearm, or antibrachium, and the hand or forefoot; in man, consisting of eight short bones disposed in two rows.

Having the skeleton in the state of cartilage, the bones containing little or no calcareous matter; said of certain fishes, as the sturgeon and the sharks.

Having the quality of consolidating broken bones.

ion found in the caves of Europe, believed to be a large variety of the African lion. -- Bone cave. See under Bone.

The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; -- called also cementum. Hydraulic cement. See under Hydraulic.

The central, or one of the central, bones of the carpus or or tarsus. In the tarsus of man it is represented by the navicular.

es from the exterior of a thing toward its center; as, the centripetal calcification of a bone. R. Owen. Centripetal force (Mech.), a force whose direction is towards a center, as in case of a planet revolving round the sun, the center of the system, See Centrifugal force, under Centrifugal. -- Centripetal impression…

Pertaining to the bone, or cartilage, below the epibranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.

Pertaining to the bone, or carts, large, below the epihyal in the hyoid arch. -- n.

as nearly twenty feet in length, and the skull bears a bony horn core on the united nasal bones. See Illustration in Appendix.

the tail flukes are horizontal. There are two living suborders: (a) The Mysticete or whalebone whales, having no true teeth after birth, but with a series of plates of whalebone [see Baleen.] hanging down from the upper jaw on each side, thus making a strainer, through which they receive the small animals upon which th…

icks, used as a drawing implement. Animal charcoal, a fine charcoal prepared by calcining bones in a closed vessel; -- used as a filtering agent in sugar refining, and as an absorbent and disinfectant. -- Charcoal blacks, the black pigment, consisting of burnt ivory, bone, cock, peach stones, and other substances. --…

Charnel vaults." Milton. Charnel house, a tomb, vault, cemetery, or other place where the bones of the dead are deposited; originally, a place for the bones thrown up when digging new graves in old burial grounds.