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osteoˈlogical, a.
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
1. Pertaining to, dealing with, or relating to osteology, or the scientific study of bones.
1777Camper in Phil. Trans. LXIX. 148 Galen's osteological performances upon this subject. 1863Lyell Antiq. Man iv. (ed. 3) 66 Engrossed by his osteological inquiries. 1881Owen Sect. Addr. Brit. Assoc. in Nature XXIV. 421 For the storage of such specimens, and especially the osteological ones.
2. Of or pertaining to the objects of osteology, i.e. to bones, their structure, arrangement in the skeleton, etc.; coming within the sphere or ken of osteology.
1794Blumenbach in Phil. Trans. LXXXIV. 190 The osteological properties which I have had opportunities to observe in the skulls of mummies. 1854Owen Skel. & Teeth in Circ. Sc., Organ. Nat. I. 257 In the osteological structure of man, the vertebrate archetype is furthest departed from. 1875Lyell's Princ. Geol. II. iii. xlvii. 567 Fossil skeletons..agreeing..in osteological character with some of the existing races of man.
Hence osteoˈlogically adv.
1819Lawrence Lect. (cited in Webster, 1828). 1891Proc. Zool. Soc. 196 It will at once be seen that, osteologically, Starnœnas is quite different from any of our other pigeons. 1946F. E. Zeuner Dating Past vii. 206 This form is osteologically quite distinct from Lynx pardina Temminck. |