For example, a dorsal (back) vertebra from a juvenile animal showed an exostosis (bony growth) on its underside.

A deputy art director created the bony growth by manipulating an image of a trilobite.

Ligaments strains, bony growths and trapped nerves causing pain, stiffness or pins and needles.

Prevalence of palatal tori ranges from 9% - 60% and are more common than bony growths occurring on the mandible, known as torus mandibularis.

Nodular tori have multiple bony growths that each have their own base.

Another derived, sauropod like feature was a bony plate that lined the tooth row laterally and became thicker towards the tip of the snout.

Lacking distinct teeth, like all placoderms, they used the sharpened edges of a bony plate as a biting surface.

The preopercle, the bony plate just in front of the operculum, bears a few spines set at an angle.

Even the purpose of the bony plates lining its back remains a bit of a mystery.

Fossils from the dig have now enabled researchers to discount the theory that the shell originally formed from bony plates, like those on a crocodile, which expanded and fused together.

Lift the fillet onto a plate, then run a spatula under the exposed bony skeleton.

They have no jaw, no scales, no paired fins, and no bony skeleton.

They have replaced a bony skeleton with one of cartilage and possess a few large bony plates instead of scales.

Generally replantation involves restoring blood flow through arteries and veins, restoring the bony skeleton and connecting tendons and nerves as required.

However, they may cause injury to adjacent structures and when they malfunction can cause injury to the abdominal viscera, bony skeleton and vascular structures.

Instead, it was a solid bony structure similar to that of the first tetrapods.

The bony structure was suffused with tiny blood vessels that would heat it to a temperature high enough to melt through the ice.

Since the bony structure and musculature was modified in this way it has remained essentially unchanged, and modern crocodilians vary little from their ancestors in this respect.

Most fish have bony structures, otoliths, which have annual growth rings, but whale sharks don't.

Bony structures are often compared to otoliths as far as accuracy.