flat bone

The legs are straight with clean, flat bone and hard hooves.

He felt a horseshoe ridge of flat bone close on his shoulder, hard.

We cut that out with the sharpened edge of a flat bone."

Flat bones house the brain, spinal cord, and other vital organs.

In an adult, most red blood cells are formed in flat bones.

The ribs are curved, flat bones with a slightly twisted shaft.

He broke off as his exploring fingers moved deeper and encountered a long, flat bone which had no business being there.

It is made up of eight large flat bones, joined together by fixed joints known as sutures.

He eyed the flat bone pieces I held.

He brought the gun back in the air and hit the Vice President on the flat bone of his cheek beside the right eye.

She grabbed the hide and the flat bone shovel and raced back to the beach.

The skull is made of flat bones.

It is a wide, flat bone lying on the thoracic wall that provides an attachment for three different groups of muscles.

Gliding joints occur between the surfaces of two flat bones that are held together by ligaments.

The ribs are examples of flat bones.

The Fell pony should be hardy and show good pony characteristics, including strong flat bone.

The sternum or breastbone, in vertebrate anatomy, is a flat bone.

Most of the bones of the skull are flat bones, as is the sternum.

The width of the back at the top is defined by the scapula, the broad, flat bones of the shoulders.

The skull is most frequently affected, followed by the long bones of the upper extremities and flat bones.

Naked women sat around the fireplace on makeshift benches made of flat bones stretched across other mammoth bone supports.

Commonly affected sites are metaphyses of vertebra, flat bones, femur and tibia.

This makes use of a complex movement to allow the radiographic examination of the mandible, as if it were a flat bone.

Scapula (shoulder blade): flat bone with a large area of cartilage that partially forms the withers.

Pelvis: made up of the os coxae, the largest of the flat bones in a horse.