MEMBRANE BONE

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Meaning:

Any bone that develops within membranous tissue without previous cartilage formation; e.g. the clavicle and bones of the skull

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Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("membrane bone" is a kind of...):

bone; os (rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "membrane bone"):

forehead; frontal bone; os frontale (the large cranial bone forming the front part of the cranium: includes the upper part of the orbits)

parietal bone (either of two skull bones between the frontal and occipital bones and forming the top and sides of the cranium)

occipital bone (a saucer-shaped membrane bone that forms the back of the skull)