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osteology|ɒstiːˈɒlədʒɪ|
Also 7 ostiologie, -y.
[ad. mod.L. osteologia (1573 Jasolinus), f. Gr. ὀστεο- bone, osteo- + -λογια, -logy. Cf. F. ostéologie (1628 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
1. The science which treats of bones; that branch of anatomy which deals with the structure, genesis, and disposition of bones.
1670Pettus Fodinæ Reg. Introd. 2 If any one would write of the Nature of Ostiologie. 1709Steele Tatler No. 62 ⁋17 Well known for his Acuteness in Dissection of dead Bodies, and his great Skill in Osteology. 1858Buckle Civiliz. (1869) II. iv. 195 The founders of comparative osteology.
b. A treatise on the bones.
1713Cheselden Anat. Pref. (1726) 4 If I had not been so much engaged about an Osteology, in which every plate is twenty one inches long. 1861Craik Hist. Eng. Lit. II. 168 The eldest Alexander Monro, the author of the Osteology, first published in 1726.
2. transf. The objects of this science; the bony structure or system of bones of an animal.
1833Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 4 By a comparison of the osteology of the existing vertebrated animals with the remains found entombed in ancient strata. 1837–9Hallam Hist. Lit. I. i. ix. §13. 468 Vesalius seems not to have known the osteology of the ear. 1881Huxley Addr. Brit. Assoc. in Nature XXIV. 454 To obtain a full knowledge of the osteology and of the dentition of these two forms.
fig.1856Dove Logic Chr. Faith ii. §2. 114 The pantheistic scheme could go no farther than the bare outline of the osteology of the universe.
b. loosely. A bony framework or skeleton.
1854Badham Halieut. 235 Here in strange jumble lie..the several osteologies of inoffensive gurnards, perch, mackerel,..commingled with those of the implacable shark and fierce colossal skate. |