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Medical students might bone up on this course?
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osteology
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Osteology is the scientific study of bones, practiced by osteologists . A subdiscipline of anatomy , anthropology , and archaeology , osteology is a detailed study of the structure of bones, skeletal elements, teeth , microbone morphology , function, disease ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, from French ostèologie , from Modern Latin osteologia , from Greek osteon "bone" (see osseous ) + -logia (see -logy ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context anatomy English) The scientific study of the morphology and pathology of bones. 2 (context anatomy English) The bone structure of a particular individual, or species.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Osteology \Os`te*ol"o*gy\, n. [Osteo- + -logy: cf. F. ost['e]ologie.] The science which treats of the bones of the vertebrate skeleton.
Usage examples of osteology.
Enoch Leng, wishes access to the collections of anthropology and mammalogy to conduct research on taxonomy and classification, and to prepare comparative essays in physical anthropology, human osteology, and phrenology.
For another it was likely that his more loquacious self, in spite of all the discipline he could impose upon it, would, in moments of distraction or near-sleep, certainly torment him with observations on his new poverty -his inability to oblige Diana, to endow a chair of osteology, to do the handsome thing on occasion, to maintain some of the annuities he had promised, to undertake remote voyages in the Surprise when peace should come at last.
Enoch Leng, wishes access to the collections of anthropology and mammalogy to conduct research on taxonomy and classification, and to prepare comparative essays in physical anthropology, human osteology, and phrenology.