osseous

• “As already remarked, the main point of difference, upon which scientific naturalists rely, is found in the horns; those of the deer being termed osseous, or bony, while these appendages in the antelopes are true horns -- that is, of the same material as the horns of oxen.”

  Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys

• “An artists vague, origional interpretaion of the skeletal system, also known as osseous tissue.”

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• “In the third class come tissues the cells of which have fused by their walls, but whose cell-cavities are not in continuity, such as osseous tissue and cartilage.”

  Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

• “While bone marrow is part of the osseous system, the bones do not constitute one organ, and marrow-like functions occur in the liver, spleen, and lymph nodes altogether encompassing the reticuloendothelial system.”

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• “One wishes here, though, that the spongy, osseous kelp forest underneath was extended above the water line: a spongy, osseous rain forest within which fishes swarm.”

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• “The cranium was met with at a depth of a metre and a half [five feet nearly], hidden under an osseous breccia, composed of the remains of small animals, and containing one rhinoceros tusk, with several teeth of horses and of ruminants.”

  Essays

• “There is an osseous process from the posterior part of all and each of the vertebra, whether greater or smaller; and upon these processes there are cartilaginous epiphyses, and from them arise nervous productions (ligaments?), akin to the external nerves”

  On The Articulations

• “He was osseous, sandy-haired, blue-eyed, with a keen, formidable nose and a solid chin.”

  The Titan

• “He was a strange, tall, dark, osseous man who, owing to the brooding, melancholy character of his own disposition, had a checkered and a somewhat sad career behind him.”

  The Titan

• “Sixthly, a large animal, with an osseous coat in compartments, very like that of an armadillo.”

  Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle

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