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单词 bone age
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bone age
bone age n. (a) Archaeology a prehistoric period characterized by a preponderance of bone artefacts (cf. stone age n. a, Iron Age n.1 3, etc.) (now rare or disused); (b) Anthropology and Medicine the stage of maturation of a person's skeleton as determined by post-mortem or X-ray examination (often compared with chronological age in diagnostic investigations of short stature in children).
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1864 Anthropol. Rev. 2 313 This would constitute the wood and bone age, of which, from the perishable nature of the materials, we can, of course, possess but slender records.]
1867 Harper's Mag. Nov. 785/1 The wondrous romance of Man, which is being recovered chapter by chapter—Stone Age, Bone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age.
1920 T. W. Todd in Amer. Jrnl. Physical Anthropol. 3 317 No. 26 of age forty.., is from a skeleton the bone age of which, like the pubis in particular, indicates an age of about thirty-five years.
1938 Bull. Art Inst. Chicago Feb. 27 The objects shown..cover a period of some eight thousand years, from the bone age to our present century.
2012 Wall St. Jrnl. 24 July d2/5 If a 10-year-old is unusually short and has a bone age of only 8, we can reassure him that he's got several more years of growing yet to do.
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