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short bone

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Noun1.short bone - a bone that is of approximately equal dimension in all directions
bone, os - rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates


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The jaw is linked to the end of a short bone, and the other end of the short bone is connected to the skull.
Rosie's sister, Daisy, eight, has Kabuki syndrome, a cause of abnormalities such as short bones and learning difficulties.
In "On a Picture by Cezanne," Di Piero writes, "The dog of work gnaws the day's short bone,/ snarls a mountainside into lavender and green.
 
 
 
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