membrane bone
a bone that develops from membranous tissue.
Origin of membrane bone
1- Compare cartilage bone.
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. ReynoldsThe 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. ReynoldsIn Dipnoi the skull is mainly cartilaginous, but both cartilage- and membrane-bone occur also.
The Vertebrate Skeleton | Sidney H. ReynoldsIn Bony Ganoids both cartilage bone and membrane bone is well developed.
The Vertebrate Skeleton | Sidney H. ReynoldsThe 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
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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