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SHORT BONE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does short bone mean?
• SHORT BONE (noun)
The noun SHORT BONE has 1 sense:
1. a bone that is of approximately equal dimension in all directions
Familiarity information: SHORT BONE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A bone that is of approximately equal dimension in all directions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Synonyms:
os breve; short bone
Hypernyms ("short bone" is a kind of...):
bone; os (rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates)
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