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骨骼,骨头,骨质,骨
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Definitions
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- : Anatomy, Zoology. one of the structures composing the skeleton of a vertebrate.the hard connective tissue forming the substance of the skeleton of most vertebrates, composed of a collagen-rich organic matrix impregnated with calcium, phosphate, and other minerals.
- : such a structure from an edible animal, usually with meat adhering to it, as an article of food: Pea soup should be made with a ham bone.
- : any of various similarly hard or structural animal substances, as ivory or whalebone.
- : something made of or resembling such a substance.
- : a small concession, intended to pacify or quiet; a conciliatory bribe or gift: The administration threw the student protesters a couple of bones, but refused to make any basic changes in the curriculum or requirements.
- : bones, the skeleton.a body: Let his bones rest in peace.Games Slang.dice.Mr. Bones. a simple rhythm instrument consisting of two sometimes curved bars or short strips of bone, ivory, wood, or the like, held between the fingers of one hand and clacked together.
- : the color of bone; ivory or off-white.
- : a flat strip of whalebone or other material for stiffening corsets, petticoats, etc.; stay.
- : Games Slang. a domino.
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boned, bon·ing.
- : to remove the bones from: to bone a turkey.
- : to put whalebone or another stiffener into.
- : Slang: Vulgar. to have sexual intercourse with: He was boning his best friend's wife!
- : Agriculture. to put bone meal into.
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- : completely; absolutely: bone tired.
Phrases
- bone of contention
- bone to pick, have a
- bone up
- bare bones
- chilled to the bone
- cut to the bone
- feel in one's bones
- funny bone
- make no bones about
- pull a boner
- roll the bones
- skin and bones
- work one's fingers to the bone
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
The $1,500 Embody Gaming Chair has the bones of an office chair.
After too long in microgravity, our muscles and bones become weak.
The man’s bones had previously been found in the Newgrange passage tomb, an earthen mound covering more than 4,000 square meters near the River Boyne.
Archaeologist Ryan Rabett of Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland calls the new study of Sri Lankan bone points “suggestive but not definitive” evidence of bow-and-arrow hunting.
The tooth and six bone fragments are more than 40,000 years old.
Not long after I was finally diagnosed, my doctor ordered a bone density scan.
Later studies showed that only gaining weight and the return of natural menstruation help improve bone density.
My doctor put me on oral contraceptives to induce a period, figuring it would help build bone.
This leaves people with a history of anorexia and reduced bone density like me at high risk for fractures.
An x-ray two hours later confirms my hunch: my tibia (the big bone behind the shin) is snapped clean in two.
I saw this girl, eight or nine years old, all benumbed and nothing but skin and bone.
Large mononuclear leukocytes probably originate in the bone-marrow or spleen.
That we will, and you never need want, Mark, for I've many a fine bone buried away against old age and rainy weather.
Myelocytes are the bone-marrow cells from which the corresponding granular leukocytes are developed.
Polymorphonuclear leukocytes are formed in the bone-marrow from neutrophilic myelocytes.