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BONY
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Irregular inflected forms: bonier , boniest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having bones especially many or prominent bones
Example:
bony fish
Synonyms:
boney; bony
Classified under:
Similar:
bone (consisting of or made up of bone)
boned (having bones as specified)
bonelike (resembling bone)
strong-boned (having strong bones)
Antonym:
boneless (being without a bone or bones)
Derivation:
bone (rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Being very thin
Example:
pale bony hands
Synonyms:
boney; bony; scraggly; scraggy; scrawny; skinny; underweight; weedy
Classified under:
Similar:
lean; thin (lacking excess flesh)
Derivation:
boniness; bonyness (extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease))
Sense 3
Meaning:
Composed of or containing bone
Example:
osseous tissue
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
bone (the porous calcified substance from which bones are made)
Derivation:
bone (rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates)
Context examples:
The bony, basin-shaped structure formed by the hipbones and the base of the backbone supporting the lower limbs in humans.
(Pelvis, NCI Thesaurus)
His eyes flashed, however, and he shook his bony hand with a fierce wild gesture after the retreating figure.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The young pugilist, who had a curious, lanky figure, and a craggy, bony face, passed his fingers through his close-cropped hair.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Clinical course usually leads to early local invasion of the bony thoracic structures.
(Pancoast Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)
The front portion is bony (hard palate), and the back portion is muscular (soft palate).
(Palate, NCI Dictionary)
Neoplasms of the bony orbit and contents except the eyeball.
(Orbit Neoplasm, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
The bony elevation located beneath the eyebrow.
(Orbital Ridge, NCI Thesaurus)
The formation of bone or of a bony substance; the conversion of fibrous tissue or of cartilage into bone or a bony substance.
(Ossification, NCI Thesaurus)
General or unspecified injuries to the soft tissue or bony portions of the face.
(Face Injury, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Issue associated with the failure to see direct anchorage of an implant by the formation of bony tissue around the implant without the growth of fibrous tissue at the bone-implant interface.
(Failure to Osseointegrate Associated with Medical Device, Food and Drug Administration)
