radius

Borrowed from Latin radius (“ray”). Doublet of ray.

It is also obvious, and proved by experiment, that the rotatory motions observed in the hand proceed from the rotatory motions of the radius.

1808, John Barclay, The Muscular Motions of the Human Body, →OCLC, page 396:

(anatomy) The long bone in the forearm, on the side of the thumb.


bedrock

en-noun

bedrock (countable and uncountable, plural bedrocks)

From bed (“a layer on top of which something else rests.”) + rock.

compound

bed<t:a layer on top of which something else rests.>


rib

From Middle English rib, ribbe, from Old English ribb (“rib”), from Proto-West Germanic *ribi, from Proto-Germanic *ribją (“rib, reef”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rebʰ- (“arch, ceiling, cover”).
Cognate with Dutch rib (“rib”), Norwegian ribbe (“sparerib”), Norwegian ribben (“rib”), Low German ribbe (“rib”), German Rippe (“rib”), Old Norse rif (“rib, reef”), Serbo-Croatian rèbro (“rib”).
(wife or woman): In reference to the creation of Eve from Adam's rib in the Bible.

der

On an early winter afternoon, clear but not cold, when the vegetable world was a weird multitude of skeletons through whose ribs the sun shone freely, a gleaming landau came to a pause on the crest of a hill in Wessex.

1882, Thomas Hardy, chapter I, in Two on a Tower. A Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 1:

(anatomy) Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from the spine to or toward the sternum.


rib

From Middle English ribbe, from Old English ribbe (“hound's-tongue”).

(botany) Hound's-tongue (Cynoglossum officinale).

Tanacetum balsamita
Tanacetum balsamita#Translingual

(botany) Costmary (Tanacetum balsamita).

Nasturtium officinale
Nasturtium officinale#Translingual

(botany) Watercress (Nasturtium officinale).


parietal bone

From Latin parietalis (“pertaining to walls”), from paries (“wall”) + bone.

uder

(anatomy) Either of two bones that together form the sides and top of the skull.

os parietal

either of two bones at the sides and top of the skull


occipital bone

From Latin occiput, from ob- (“towards, against”) and caput (“head”)


ethmoid bone

The bone of the skull between the eyes and at the roof of the nose.


sphenoid bone

A compound bone at the base of the skull behind the eyes.


temporal bone

Either of two compound bones that collectively make up the sides and base of the skull.

temporal

either of two compound bones at the sides of the skull


heel bone

The large bone making up the heel of the human foot.


cheekbone

From Middle English chekebon, chekbone, from Old English ċēacbān (“cheekbone”); equivalent to cheek + bone. Compare Dutch kaakbeen (“jawbone”).

She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.

1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

A youngish-looking man came up to him, and aggressive-looking type with a hook mouth, a lantern nose, and small beady little cheekbones.

1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 113:


frontal bone

The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue.[…].

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

(anatomy) The bone which forms the front part of the skull and the upper part of the eye sockets and nasal cavity.

(anatomy) Either of the pair of bones from which the frontal bone is formed by fusion in infancy.


capitate bone

The largest of the bones in the human wrist.


cuboid bone

One of the seven tarsal bones, the most lateral of the bones in the distal row of the tarsus, and roughly cubical in shape.


hamate bone

One of the eight bones of the wrist (carpals).


breastbone

From Middle English brust-bon, brestbon, from Old English brēostbān (“breastbone”), equivalent to breast + bone.

He lapped out of his hand, then sat up in the sunlight, crossing his shins in front of him, and after a time let his woolly head fall on his breastbone.

1899 (please specify the page), Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part:

(anatomy) The central narrow bone in the front of the chest, connecting the collarbone and the top ribs.

borsbeen

the central narrow bone in the front of the chest

છાતીનું હાડકું

chātīnũ hāḍkũ


metatarsus

The part of the foot between the toes and the ankle, especially its five bones.


anklebone

From Middle English ancle bone; equivalent to ankle + bone.

And immediatly his fete ãd anclebones receaved ſtrenght / and he ſprange / ſtode / ãd alſo walked / ãd entred with them into the temple walkinge / and leapynge / and laudynge god.

1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, The Actes off the Apostles iij:[7–8], folio clvii, recto:

The bone of the ankle, forming the lower part of the ankle joint and joining with the tibia and fibula.


unciform

/ˈʌnsɪfɔːɹm/


jawbone

en-noun

jawbone (countable and uncountable, plural jawbones)

From Middle English jawe bone, a variant of chawlbone, chawylbon, chavylbone, chavyl bon (“jaw bone”, literally “chavel bone”), see chavel-bone; equivalent to jaw + bone.

14 ¶ And when he came vnto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily vpon him, and the cordes that were vpon his armes became as flaxe that was burnt with fire, & his bands loosed from off his hands.
15 And he found a new iawbone of an asse, and put foorth his hand, and tooke it, and slewe a thousand men therewith.
16 And Samson said, With the iawbone of an asse, heapes vpon heapes, with the iaw of an asse haue I slaine a thousand men.
17 And it came to passe when he had made an end of speaking, that hee cast away the iaw bone out of his hand, and called that place Ramath-Lehi.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges 15:14–17:

(countable) The bone of the lower jaw; the mandible.

(countable) Any of the bones in the lower or upper jaw.

(countable, singular or plural, music) A shaken musical instrument (an idiophone) made from the jawbone of an animal and shaken such that the teeth vibrate in their sockets to produce sound.

We have a few persons whose pockets are to let—men who have more complaints than dollars—individuals who, in digger's parlance, live on jawbone (credit), and are always to be found at saloons; a class of men who, when they are here, wish themselves yonder, and when yonder, wish themselves back.


tarsal bone

(anatomy) Any of the seven bones of the tarsus.


carpal bone

(anatomy) Any of the eight bones of the carpus or wrist.


navicular bone

(anatomy) One of the tarsal bones of the foot or one of the carpal bones of the wrist.


scaphoid bone

(anatomy) One of the carpal bones of the wrist.


intermediate cuneiform bone

intermediate cuneiform bone (plural intermediate cuneiform bones)

One of the three cuneiform bones of the foot.

中間楔状骨

ちゅうかんけつじょうこつ


scaphoid

From Latin scaphoides, from Ancient Greek σκᾰφοειδής (skaphoeidḗs, “like a bowl, hollow”), from σκᾰ́φη (skáphē, “boat, trough, bowl”).


os coxae

From Latin os (“bone”) and coxa (“hip”).


triquetral bone

en-noun

triquetral bone (plural triquetral bones)


innominate bone

innominate bone (plural innominate bones)


vomer bone

(anatomy) The small thin bone that forms part of the septum between the nostrils.


intermediate phalange

intermediate phalange (plural intermediate phalanges)

(anatomy) Any of the phalanx bones in the middle of the fingers or toes; middle phalange


pisiform bone

(anatomy) A small knobbly, pea-shaped sesamoid bone of the wrist.


inferior nasal concha

inferior nasal concha (plural inferior nasal conchae)

(anatomy) The largest of the three nasal conchae located within the nasal cavity.

cornet inferior

The largest of the three nasal concha located within the nasal cavity


lacrimal bone

(anatomy) The smallest and most fragile bone of the face, situated near the eye.


palatine bone

(anatomy) Either of a pair of bones that are situated behind and between the maxillae, in humans are of extremely irregular form, and make up parts of the eye socket, the nasal cavity, and the hard palate.

os palatí

either of a pair of bones that are situated behind and between the maxillae, in humans are of extremely irregular form, and make up parts of the eye socket, the nasal cavity, and the hard palate


sesamoid bone

(anatomy) A small bone embedded within a tendon, typically found in locations where a tendon passes over a joint.


thighbone

From late Middle English. Equivalent to thigh + bone.

(anatomy) The bone that extends from the pelvis to the knee in humans; the femur.


stirrup bone

(anatomy) the smallest bone in the human body; it is situated in the ear and passes vibrations from the anvil to cochlea


collarbone

From Middle English colar bane; equivalent to collar + bone.

The bone joining the shoulder and the breastbone.


coracoid process

coracoid process (plural coracoid processes)

Part of the scapula that projects towards the sternum in mammals


elbow bone

(anatomy) Olecranon, at the elbow end of the ulna.


hip bone

Holonyms: pelvis, os coxae

Meronyms: acetabulum, ilium, ischium, pubis

(anatomy) One of two roughly symmetrical skeleton parts, each composed of the fused iliac, ischial and pubic bones, that together form the sides of the pelvis.


knucklebone

Such a bone once used in knucklebones and other children's games of chance.


fishbone

He choked on a fishbone.


brainpan

From Middle English brayn panne, from Old English bræġnpanne, corresponding to brain + pan.

Many a time but for a Sallet, my braine-pan had bene cleft with a brown Bill.

1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ix]:

Yet, whether thwart or flatly it did lyte, / The tempred steele did not into his braynepan byte.

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

(now chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) The skull.


harnpan

From Middle English herne panne, hern panne, equivalent to harn(s) (“brains”) + pan (“pan, forehead”). Cognate with Scots harn-pan (“harnpan”), Middle Dutch and Middle Low German hernepanne (“harnpan”), Dutch hersenpan (“harnpan”). Compare also Middle Low German panne (“pan, forehead”), Danish pande (“pan, forehead”), Swedish panna (“pan, forehead”).

cog

(now archaic, dialectal or rare) The brainpan; the skull.


zygomaticofrontal

(anatomy) Relating to the zygomatic bone and frontal bone.


septomaxillary

(anatomy) septomaxilla (small bone between the nasal septum and the maxilla in many reptiles and amphibians.)


scap

(bodybuilding, exercise, colloquial) The scapula.


dentary bone

The mandible of a vertebrate, or homologous bone in the lower jaw of ancestral and related animals, which holds teeth.


cramp bone

He could turn crampbones into chessmen.

1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 17, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:

The patella of a sheep, formerly used as a charm against cramp.


lesser multangular

en-noun

lesser multangular (plural lesser multangulars)


floating rib

Either of the two lowermost (the eleventh and twelfth) pairs of ribs, which are attached only to the vertebrae and not to the sternum or its cartilage.


palatopterygoquadrate

The dorsal part consists of the two palatopterygoquadrate cartilages, which have fused in the anterior midline and have formed an arch that constitutes the upper jaw.

2006, Saul Wischnitzer, Atlas and Dissection Guide for Comparative Anatomy, page 40:

A certain jaw bone in reptiles and fish, consisting of fused palatine, pterygoid and quadrate bones.


bone age

bone age (countable and uncountable, plural bone ages)

(medicine) The apparent age of a child based on the maturity of its bones.


true rib

A rib attached to the spine and sternum, as opposed to a floating rib.


postinfraorbital

A group of dermal bones located posterior to the orbit (in some vertebrates)


tibiofibula

tibiofibula (plural tibiofibulas or tibiofibulae)

tibiofibulas (plural)
tibiofibulae (plural)

A bone, in some reptiles, that is formed by fusion of the tibia and fibula


tau bone

From the shape, which resembles the Greek letter tau (τ).

A Τ-shaped bone, such as the interclavicle of a monotreme.


spoke-bone

The tendon itself dips down between the flexors of the hand and fingers and the supinators of the fore arm, and is - inserted at the inner and back part of the tubercle of the spoke-bone.

1845, Edward Smedley, Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose, Encyclopaedia Metropolitana: Difform- Falter, page 426:

A bone which has a tubercle where a tendon attaches to the inner and back part of it.


caputegulum

Any of a series of flat bones that cover the skull bones of ankylosaurs


radial bone

Synonym of radius (“a bone in the forearm”)


deathskull

A human skull used as a warning of danger or a symbol of death.


Divje Babe flute

A cave bear femur pierced by spaced holes, dating from the Late Pleistocene era, that was found in 1995 at the Divje Babe archeological park located near Cerkno in northwestern Slovenia. It has been suggested that it was made by Neanderthals as a form of musical instrument, and as such it is possibly the world's oldest known musical instrument.


cyamella

(anatomy) A small sesamoid bone situated in the popliteus muscle found in primates (rarely humans) and certain other animals.


intermetatarseum

(anatomy) A rare sesamoid bone situated in the foot found in 4% of the human population.


vesalianum

(anatomy) A rare sesamoid bone situated in the foot found in less than 1% of the human population.