short bone

/ʃɔrt boʊn/
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Other forms: short bones

Definitions of short bone
  1. noun
    a bone that is of approximately equal dimension in all directions
    synonyms: os breve
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    type of:
    bone, os
    rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates
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