short bone

True cats have instead a series of short bones, placed end to end.

They mostly appear during fetal development, though a few short bones begin their primary ossification after birth.

They also have short bones such as the phalanges, metacarpals, and metatarsals.

Haven't come across any short bones, have you?"

Braigon eased his fingers around the short bone hilt.

It is used to restrict the growth of a longer bone to allow the shorter bone to continue to grow to match its length.

He saw what appeared to be several lengths of short bone and scraps of cloth littering the beach.

It can also be used to lengthen short bones, straighten deformations, and alleviate dwarfism.

They carried short bone bows and quivers of long arrows fletched with hawk feathers.

Anatomically, two short bones, the proximal phalanx and the middle phalanx.

Short bones are roughly cube-shaped, and have only a thin layer of compact bone surrounding a spongy interior.

The hock joint corresponds to the human ankle and first short bones in the foot; the dog does not walk on the heel as people do.

The bones of the wrist and ankle are short bones, as are the sesamoid bones.

The clavicle is a doubly curved short bone that connects the arm (upper limb) to the body (trunk), located directly above the first rib.

Short Bones: Absorb concussion.

Short bones are designated as those bones that are as wide as they are long.

They are responsible for the formation of the diaphyses of long bones, short bones and certain parts of irregular bones.

His eyes glow bright red, and short bones protrude from his left arm, back, jaw and a Mohawk-like ridge on his head.

"All bones are of one of four types - lengthy bones, short bones plank or flat bones, and irregular bones."

The irregular bones are bones which, from their peculiar form, cannot be grouped as long bone, short bone, flat bone or sesamoid bone.

These are Long bones, Short bones, Flat bones, Irregular bones, and Sesamoid bones.

Karr squirmed through like a worm and entered the spinal foramen, a triangular conduit formed by the gentle curve of the vertebrae on one side and the processes of shorter bone spurs opposite.

Two of the Chitchatuk had hurled themselves down that shaft, braking their fall with their boots and short bone knives throwing ice splinters above them, and I was about to squeeze in when Cuchiat grabbed my shoulder.

One of these merrow-who had drawn the short bone when it and its fellows had cast lots for the task-now stood in the marble council chamber of Ascarle handing over the grim details to the illithid who ruled as Regent and to the black-bearded man who prowled the room like a caged bear.

Boas and Pythons: a long ilium, attached to the lower branch of the first bifurcate transverse process of the lumbar vertebrae, bearing three short bones, the longest of which, regarded as the femur, terminates in a claw-like pelvic spur which usually appears externally on each side of the cloaca.