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Definition of Flat bone
1. Noun. Part of the sirloin next to the wedge bone.
Medical Definition of Flat bone
1. A type of bone characterised by its thin, flattened shape, such as the scapula or certain of the cranial bones. Synonym: os planum. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flat Bone
Literary usage of Flat bone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Medical Times and Gazette (1863)
"A second long flat bone is closely applied to the inner surface of the cartilage
and follows its curves from the hinder to the anterior extremity, ..."
2. Home Economics: A Guide to Household Management, Including the Proper by Maria Parola (1906)
"Flat-bone.steak. canning, making beef extracts, soups, etc. This piece of meat
is so protected in the body of the animal that it has but little exercise; ..."
3. The Market Assistant: Containing a Brief Description of Every Article of by Thomas Farrington De Voe (1867)
"A new expedient to save his dignity was suggested at the FLAT-BONE SIRLOIN-STEAK.
same time, and he at once evinced his obedience to the emperor by seeming ..."
4. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1902)
"The natural edge of the. long flat bone (c] curves outward in front, and joining
with an ascending plate from the maxilla bounds an oval vacuity (Or) of ..."
5. Transactions of the Obstetrical Society of London: Vol. I-XLIX, for the Year by Obstetrical Society of London (1881)
"... piece projected free into the bowel, and the rest was firmly embedded in the
tissue around; behind it a second flat bone could be felt lying against it. ..."
6. Report of the Annual Meeting (1842)
"There is a portion of a broad and flat bone in this piece which may have belonged
to the scapular arch. Ilium.—In another piece of stone, with the other ..."
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