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SUTURAL BONE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sutural bone mean?
• SUTURAL BONE (noun)
The noun SUTURAL BONE has 1 sense:
1. any of the tiny soft bones found in the sutures between cranial bones
Familiarity information: SUTURAL BONE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of the tiny soft bones found in the sutures between cranial bones
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Synonyms:
sutural bone; Wormian bone
Hypernyms ("sutural bone" is a kind of...):
bone; os (rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates)
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