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单词 osteological
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osteologicaladj.

Brit. /ˌɒstɪəˈlɒdʒᵻkl/, U.S. /ˈˌɑstioʊˈlɑdʒək(ə)l/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: osteo- comb. form, -logical comb. form.
Etymology: < osteo- comb. form + -logical comb. form, after French ostéologique (1695 in the passage translated in quot. 1703 at main sense). Compare earlier osteology n. and later osteologic adj.
Of or relating to osteology, or to the osteology of a species, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > study of body > study of bones > [adjective]
osteological1703
osteologic1828
osteometrical1890
osteometric1898
1703 tr. P. Dionis Anat. Humane Bodies Improv'd 81 It is fit Gentlemen, that I should finish my Osteological Demonstrations, with the Bones which compose the lower Limbs.
1777 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 69 148 Galen's osteological performances upon this subject.
1794 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 84 190 The osteological properties which I have had opportunities to observe in the skulls of mummies.
1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 257 In the osteological structure of man, the vertebrate archetype is furthest departed from.
1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man iv. 66 Engrossed with his osteological inquiries.
1875 C. Lyell & L. Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 12) II. iii. xlvii. 567 Fossil skeletons..agreeing..in osteological character with some of the existing races of man.
1881 R. Owen in Nature 1 Sept. 421/1 For the storage of such specimens, and especially the osteological ones.
1925 Amer. Naturalist 59 266 The fossil evidence is much too scanty to be of value, but..there has been found a general agreement between the osteological, myological, ontogenetic and zoogeographic data.
1997 G. S. Helfman et al. Diversity of Fishes ii. 11/1 A comprehensive morphological and osteological study..showed clearly that the louvar is actually an aberrant pelagic relative of the surgeonfishes.

Derivatives

ˌosteoˈlogically adv. as regards osteology or osteological properties.
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the world > life > the body > study of body > study of bones > [adverb]
osteologically1814
1814 H. M. Williams tr. A. von Humboldt Res. Anc. Inhabitants Amer. I. xi. 131 If we examine osteologically the skulls of the natives of America, we see..that there is no race on the Globe in which the frontal bone is more flattened.
1891 Proc. Zool. Soc. 196 It will at once be seen that, osteologically, Starnœnas is quite different from any of our other pigeons.
1946 F. E. Zeuner Dating Past vii. 206 This form is osteologically quite distinct from Lynx pardina Temminck.
1990 R. E. Molnar in K. Carpenter & P. J. Currie Dinosaur Systematics v. 73 Several modern species of Australian tetrapods, not sibling species, are either osteologically indistinguishable,..or distinguishable only with large samples.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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