hueso

Inherited from Old Spanish huesso, from Latin ossum, popular variant of os, ossis, from Proto-Italic *ōs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁ (“bone”), *h₂óst.
Compare Catalan os, French os, Interlingua osso, Italian osso, Portuguese osso, Romanian os, Sardinian ossu.
Political sense comes from comparing a dog looking for and defending a bone and a politician searching for a position.

El perro enterró un hueso.

Los adultos tienen 206 huesos.


atlas

(anatomy) atlas (the uppermost vertebra of the neck)


frontal

Borrowed from Medieval Latin frontālis (“frontal”), from Latin frōns.


esqueleto

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σκελετός (skeletós, “dried up”).


carpo

Borrowed from Latin carpus, from Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “wrist”).


calavera

death's-head hawkmoth
death's-head hawkmoth


occipital

es-adj

occipital m or f (masculine and feminine plural occipitales)

Borrowed from New Latin occipitālis, from Latin occiput (“the back of the head”).


cigoma

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ζύγωμα (zúgōma), from ζυγόν (zugón, “yoke”).


falange

Borrowed from Latin phalangem (“phalanx”), from Ancient Greek φάλαγξ (phálanx, “battle order, array”). Cf. also the related palanca.

der

Holonym: dedo

Meronyms: falangina, falangeta

(anatomy) phalanx (one of the bones of the finger or toe)


tarso

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ταρσός (tarsós).

bor+

(anatomy) tarsal (any bone of the ankle)


osamenta

From Latin ossa + -menta, from the plural of Latin os (“bone”).


clavícula

Borrowed from Latin clavicula (“small key”), diminutive of clāvis (“key”). Compare the doublets clavija, lavija, and llavija.


etmoide

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἠθμοειδής (ēthmoeidḗs, “like a strainer or sieve”).


cigomático

Borrowed from New Latin zygōmaticus. By surface analysis, cigoma + -ático.


vértebra

From Latin vertebra (“joint”), from vertō (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *wert-.


vértebra cervical

es-noun

vértebra cervical f (plural vértebras cervicales)


escápula

Borrowed from Latin scapula (“shoulder”).


cúbito

Borrowed from Latin cubitum. Compare the inherited doublet codo. Cognate with English cubit.


peroné

Borrowed from Ancient Greek περόνη (perónē).


coxal

Borrowed from Medieval Latin or Late Latin coxālis, from Latin coxa.


trapecio

Borrowed from Late Latin trapezium, from Ancient Greek τραπέζιον (trapézion).


calcáneo

Borrowed from Latin calcāneum. Doublet of the archaic or dialectal calcaño; cf. also calcañar.


hueso de la cadera

es-noun

hueso de la cadera m (plural huesos de la cadera)


hueso innominado

hueso innominado m (plural huesos innominados)


hueso cuboides

hueso cuboides m (plural huesos cuboides)


astrágalo

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀστράγαλος (astrágalos).


hueso frontal

es-noun

hueso frontal m (plural huesos frontales)


hueso temporal

hueso temporal m (plural huesos temporales)


apófisis mastoides

apófisis mastoides f (plural apófisis mastoides)