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Definition of "osteologically" []

  • Concerning only the osteological aspects. (adverb)

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Use "osteologically" in a sentence
  • "One guy got up to give a paper on bone pathology and was listing disabilities visible in archaeological materials and in between arthritis and healed bone breaks was Raynaud's which, fwiw suggests that yes, your toe bones will lose density in osteologically visible ways."
  • "In view of both the discovery of cryptic diversity and the transformation of ‘subspecies’, and keeping in mind that a significant percentage of extant species are all but indistinguishable osteologically, it is a safe assumption that any measure of diversity among fossil species is an under-estimate."
  • "Undertaken by physical anthropologist Alan Mann and a team of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, the study of 884 bone fragments belonging to some 75 individuals showed that the Neandertal population was "osteologically healthy" aside from suffering from normal biomechanical wear due to day-to-day activities such as food-getting, aging, and injury."