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BONE AGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bone age mean?
• BONE AGE (noun)
The noun BONE AGE has 1 sense:
1. a person's age measured by matching their bone development (as shown by X rays) with bone development of an average person of known chronological age
Familiarity information: BONE AGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person's age measured by matching their bone development (as shown by X rays) with bone development of an average person of known chronological age
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("bone age" is a kind of...):
age (how long something has existed)
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