osteology
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- osteologic adjective
- osteological adjective
- osteologically adverb
- osteologist noun
Etymology
Origin of osteology
From the New Latin word osteologia, dating back to 1660–70. See osteo-, -logy
Vocabulary lists containing osteology
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Experts in fields ranging from fine art, osteology, computer tomology, and craniofacial reconstruction worked together to create the likenesses from two mummies acquired abroad and brought to Baltimore more than a century ago.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 8, 2018
He holds a plastic skull in his hand, quizzing another student, Lauren Glick, for an osteology exam.
From National Geographic • Jul. 29, 2016
He had majored in anthropology and taken a class in osteology, as well as the three-week class in forensics.
From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2016
P. Willey, a physical anthropologist who specializes in osteology, or the study of bones, who was then at the University of Tennessee, was one of several experts who studied the remains.
From Washington Times • Feb. 9, 2015
The phylogeny of the Salientia; I. The osteology and the thigh musculature; their bearing on classification and phylogeny.
From The Ancestry of Modern Amphibia: A Review of the Evidence by Eaton, Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth)
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
