Osteology
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Osteology is the scientific study of bones, practiced by osteologists. A subdiscipline of anatomy, anthropology, archaeology and paleontology, osteology is the detailed study of the structure of bones
Comparative Osteology Room in the La Plata Museum, Argentina.
Comparison of Great Dane and Chihuahua skeletons at the Museum of Osteology, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Bone
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A bone is a rigid organ that constitutes part of the skeleton in most vertebrate animals. Bones protect the organs of the body, produce red and white blood cells, store minerals, help regulate acid-ba
Osteology
…Osteology (from Greek ὀστέον (ostéon) 'bones' and λόγος (logos) 'study') is the scientific study of bones, practiced by osteologists . A subdiscipline of anatomy, anthropology, archaeology and paleontology, osteology is the detailed study of the structure…
A bone dating from the Pleistocene Ice Age of an extinct species of an elephant, possibly a mammoth
A scanning electronic micrograph of a Wistar rat's bone at 10,000× magnification
Structure of a long bone
Cross-section details of a long bone