A marked prominence or process on any part of a bone.
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the bony cavity in the skull containing the eyeball
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Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Medical anatomy.(anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Medical anatomy.A joint or juncture between bones in the skeleton.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Medical anatomy.Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Medical anatomy.(anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Medical anatomy.Hollowness.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Medical anatomy.(anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Medical anatomy.A distinct girdle or band of color; a raised spiral line as seen on certain univalve shells.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Medical anatomy.The plain semidome of an apse; sometimes used for the entire apse.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Medical anatomy.A horn, or anything shaped like or resembling a horn.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Medical anatomy.A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Medical anatomy.A dividing membrane or thin partition, commonly with an opening through it.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Medical anatomy.A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Medical anatomy.The bottom or base of any hollow organ; as, the fundus of the bladder; the fundus of the eye.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Medical anatomy.A furrow, channel, or long hollow, such as may be formed by cutting, molding, grinding, the wearing force of flowing water, or constan…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Medical anatomy.The eye of a bean or other seed; the mark or scar at the point of attachment of an ovule or seed to its base or support; -- called als…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Medical anatomy.Same as Hilum, 2.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Medical anatomy.
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the use of ultrasonography to measure the length of the eyeball
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bony, cavity, skull, containing, eyeball.Any sac or saclike cavity; especially, one of the synovial sacs, or small spaces, often lined with synovial membrane, interposed betwe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bony, cavity, skull, containing, eyeball.a cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bony, cavity, skull, containing, eyeball.a cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bony, cavity, skull, containing, eyeball.A carnivorous American Jurassic dinosaur allied to the European Megalosaurus. The animal was nearly twenty feet in length, and the sku…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bony, cavity, skull, containing, eyeball.resembling the chorion; as, the choroid plexuses of the ventricles of the brain, and the choroid coat of the eyeball.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bony, cavity, skull, containing, eyeball.a cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bony, cavity, skull, containing, eyeball.An axis to which a carpel of a compound pistil may be attached, as in the case of the geranium; or which is left when a pod opens.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bony, cavity, skull, containing, eyeball.The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bony, cavity, skull, containing, eyeball.the bony cavity in the skull containing the eyeball
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bony, cavity, skull, containing, eyeball.The skull of an animal; especially, that part of the skull, either cartilaginous or bony, which immediately incloses the brain; the br…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bony, cavity, skull, containing, eyeball.The tough, fibrous membrane, which lines the cavity of the skull and spinal column, and surrounds the brain and spinal cord; -- freque…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bony, cavity, skull, containing, eyeball.
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