membrane bone


noun
  1. a bone that develops from membranous tissue.

Origin of membrane bone

1
First recorded in 1875–80

Words Nearby membrane bone

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How to use membrane bone in a sentence

  • The perichondrium thus becomes the periosteum, and the bone produced by it, is periosteal or membrane bone.

    The Vertebrate Skeleton | Sidney H. Reynolds
  • The branchiostegal rays of the two sides are united in front by an unpaired membrane bone, the basi-branchiostegal (fig. 11, 36).

    The Vertebrate Skeleton | Sidney H. Reynolds
  • In Dipnoi the skull is mainly cartilaginous, but both cartilage- and membrane-bone occur also.

    The Vertebrate Skeleton | Sidney H. Reynolds
  • In Bony Ganoids both cartilage bone and membrane bone is well developed.

    The Vertebrate Skeleton | Sidney H. Reynolds
  • The nasal capsules are large and quite unossified though they are overlain by membrane bone.

    The Vertebrate Skeleton | Sidney H. Reynolds

British Dictionary definitions for membrane bone

membrane bone

noun
  1. any bone that develops within membranous tissue, such as the clavicle and bones of the skull, without cartilage formation: Compare cartilage bone

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