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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several elongated bones of vertebrate limbs that have a roughly cylindrical shaft containing marrow.
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- noun anatomy Any of the relatively
slender bones of the upper and lower extremities.
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- noun in limbs of vertebrate animals: a long cylindrical bone that contains marrow
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