| central bone | A small bone occasionally found at the dorsal aspect of the wrist between the scaphoid, capitate, and trapezoid; it is developed as an independent cartilage in early foetal life but usually becomes fused with the scaphoid; it occurs normally in most monkeys. Synonym: central bone. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| central bone of ankle | A bone of the tarsus on the medial side of the foot articulating with the head of the talus, the three cuneiform bones, and occasionally the cuboid. Synonym: os naviculare, central bone of ankle, os centrale tarsi. (05 Mar 2000) |
| medullary bone | Areas of bone formation present in the marrow spaces of the long bone's of birds, which serve as a readily mobilised source of calcium for shell formation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| penis bone | A bone of variable size and shape, located in the glans penis or glans clitoridis of all animals, except man, ungulates, elephants, whales, and a few others; it is particularly well developed in carnivora, and in the dog may reach a length of more than 10 cm; its size and shape are often a characteristic of a species. Synonym: baculum, penis bone. (05 Mar 2000) |
| reticulated bone | Bony tissue characteristic of the embryonal skeleton, in which the collagen fibres of the matrix are arranged irregularly in the form of interlacing networks. Synonym: nonlamellar bone, reticulated bone. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Goethe's bone | A large sutural bone occasionally found detached from the anterior portion of the os interparietale. Synonym: Goethe's bone. (05 Mar 2000) |
| membrane bone | A bone that develops embryologically within a membrane of vascularised primitive mesenchymal tissue without prior formation of cartilage. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gorham's vanishing bone disease | <radiology> Massive osteolysis of Gorham, painless, occurs in kids and young adults, not life-threatening unless vital structures are encroached upon, some recover spontaneously, with or without residual deformity, complete destruction of part or all of bone by angiomatous tissue, usually unifocal, affects proximal skeleton, may spread into soft tissues and adjacent bones Cf: other syndromes of spontaneous osteolysis (12 Dec 1998) |
| cheek bone | A quadrilateral bone which forms the prominence of the cheek; it articulates with the frontal, sphenoid, temporal, and maxillary bone. Synonym: os zygomaticum, cheek bone, jugal bone, mala, malar bone, os malare, yoke bone, zygoma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| perichondral bone | In the development of a long bone a collar or cuff of osseous tissue forms in the perichondrium of the cartilage model; the connective tissue membrane of this perichondral bone then becomes periosteum. Synonym: periosteal bone. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mesethmoid bone | In comparative anatomy, the bone present in some species as the most anterior bone of the floor of the braincase. (05 Mar 2000) |
| periosteal bone | In the development of a long bone a collar or cuff of osseous tissue forms in the perichondrium of the cartilage model; the connective tissue membrane of this perichondral bone then becomes periosteum. Synonym: periosteal bone. (05 Mar 2000) |
| periotic bone | The part of the temporal bone that contains the structures of the inner ear and the second part of the internal carotid artery; in antenatal life it appears as a separate ossification centre. Synonym: pars petrosa ossis temporalis, periotic bone, petrosal bone, petrous pyramid. (05 Mar 2000) |
| greater horn of hyoid bone | The larger and more lateral of the two processes on either side of the hyoid bone. Synonym: cornu majus ossis hyoidei. (05 Mar 2000) |
| greater multangular bone | Origin: NL, fr. Gr. A little table, an irregular four-sided figure, dim. Of a table, for; (see Tetra-) + foot, akin to foot; hence, originally, a table with four feet. See Foot. 1. <geometry> A plane figure bounded by four right lines, of which no two are parallel. 2. <anatomy> A bone of the carpus at the base of the first metacarpal, or thumb. A region on the ventral side of the brain, either just back of the pons Varolii, or, as in man, covered by the posterior extension of its transverse fibres. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |