Usually means: Supports weight, facilitates movement, elongated.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. long bone: Merriam-Webster
  2. long bone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. long bone: Vocabulary.com
  4. long bone: Wiktionary
  5. long bone: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. long bone: Dictionary.com
  7. Long bone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. long bone: Rhymezone
  9. long bone: FreeDictionary.org
  10. long bone: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. long bone: Mnemonic Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. long bone: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. long bone: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. long bone: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (long bone)

▸ noun:  (anatomy) Any of the relatively slender bones of the upper and lower extremities.

Similar:
os longum, armbone, legbone, bonelet, forearm bone, body part, diaphysis, brachium, elbow bone, shinbone, more...

Opposite:
short bone, stubby bone, compact bone

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Similar:
os longum, armbone, legbone, bonelet, forearm bone, body part, diaphysis, brachium, elbow bone, shinbone, more...

Opposite:
short bone, stubby bone, compact bone



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