单词 | bony |
释义 | bony (boʊni ) Word forms: bonier, boniest 1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] Someone who has a bony face or bony hands, for example, has a very thin face or very thin hands, with very little flesh covering their bones. ...an old man with a bony face and white hair. He poked a long bony finger in Billy's chest. Synonyms: thin, lean, skinny, angular 2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] The bony parts of a person's or animal's body are the parts made of bone. ...the bony ridge of the eye socket. 3. graded adjective If you describe fish that you are eating as bony, you mean that it has a lot of bones. ...a delicious but extremely bony fish. Collocations: bony growth For example, a dorsal (back) vertebra from a juvenile animal showed an exostosis (bony growth) on its underside. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A deputy art director created the bony growth by manipulating an image of a trilobite. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Ligaments strains, bony growths and trapped nerves causing pain, stiffness or pins and needles. The Sun Prevalence of palatal tori ranges from 9% - 60% and are more common than bony growths occurring on the mandible, known as torus mandibularis. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Nodular tori have multiple bony growths that each have their own base. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Another derived, sauropod like feature was a bony plate that lined the tooth row laterally and became thicker towards the tip of the snout. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Lacking distinct teeth, like all placoderms, they used the sharpened edges of a bony plate as a biting surface. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The preopercle, the bony plate just in front of the operculum, bears a few spines set at an angle. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Even the purpose of the bony plates lining its back remains a bit of a mystery. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Fossils from the dig have now enabled researchers to discount the theory that the shell originally formed from bony plates, like those on a crocodile, which expanded and fused together. Times, Sunday Times Lift the fillet onto a plate, then run a spatula under the exposed bony skeleton. Times, Sunday Times They have no jaw, no scales, no paired fins, and no bony skeleton. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They have replaced a bony skeleton with one of cartilage and possess a few large bony plates instead of scales. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Generally replantation involves restoring blood flow through arteries and veins, restoring the bony skeleton and connecting tendons and nerves as required. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, they may cause injury to adjacent structures and when they malfunction can cause injury to the abdominal viscera, bony skeleton and vascular structures. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Instead, it was a solid bony structure similar to that of the first tetrapods. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The bony structure was suffused with tiny blood vessels that would heat it to a temperature high enough to melt through the ice. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Since the bony structure and musculature was modified in this way it has remained essentially unchanged, and modern crocodilians vary little from their ancestors in this respect. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Most fish have bony structures, otoliths, which have annual growth rings, but whale sharks don't. Times,Sunday Times Bony structures are often compared to otoliths as far as accuracy. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 瘦削的 Japanese: やせた |
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