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Long bone   /lɔŋ boʊn/   Listen
Long bone

noun
1.
In limbs of vertebrate animals: a long cylindrical bone that contains marrow.  Synonym: os longum.






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"Long bone" Quotes from Famous Books



... our body is a triumph of engineering architecture. No engineer could better recognize the direction of strain and stress, and arrange his rods and columns, arches and buttresses, to suitably meet them, than these problems are solved in the long bone of our thigh. And they must be lengthened while the child is leaping upon them. An engineer is justly proud if he can rebuild or lengthen a bridge without delaying the passage of a single train. But what would he say if you asked him to rebuild a locomotive, while ...
— The Whence and the Whither of Man • John Mason Tyler



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