hard bone

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hard bone

n. hueso compacto.

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Mistress Inchbare's hard bones showed themselves, like Mistress Inchbare's hard Presbyterianism, without any concealment or compromise.

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But like the Christian Soldiers that they were, they quickly reminded themselves of words of Hafiz that said: 'In the time of trouble, avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone.

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They could not understand why the medieval remains were so scored, and why hard bone had been so deeply scarred.

Poor wretch who met a very grisly end identified; First victim of hanging, drawing and quartering

They could not understand why the medieval remains were so scored, why hard bone had been so deeply scarred.

HANGED, DRAWN AND QUARTERED; Analysis of bones found at Midlands abbey reveal the dead man's grisly fate and the likely identity of the poor wretch who suffered this barbarous punishment

It sends a signal into the user's brain via the hard bone behind the ear and is designed to be worn for an hour a day.

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The limb structure indicates that the youngsters took a long time to start adding hard bone to the initial soft cartilage, she says.

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In a healthy adult, this softer bone is protected by surrounding older hard bone while mineralisation occurs.

Osteoporosis--fragile bones

The human body is not a consistent medium because it consists of hard bone, tough muscle, soft gelatin-like fat and fluid-filled regions.

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Here we had to use the bone curette; sometimes the drill was used to drill the hard bone.

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Bone marrow can also be occupied by fibres, hard bone or fat cells leading to non availability of space.

Anaemia

Examination of the bones' anatomy and internal structure showed that as they contracted and pulled on the hard bone tissue, the dinosaurs' muscles played an active role in changing the shape of the developing femur," according to Reis.

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The team also found evidence that muscles played an active part in the developing femur by contracting and pulling on the hard bone.