Osseous

As already remarked, the main point of difference, upon which scientific naturalists rely, is found in the horns; those of the deer being termed osseous, or bony, while these appendages in the antelopes are true horns -- that is, of the same material as the horns of oxen. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

An artists vague, origional interpretaion of the skeletal system, also known as osseous tissue. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the third class come tissues the cells of which have fused by their walls, but whose cell-cavities are not in continuity, such as osseous tissue and cartilage. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

One wishes here, though, that the spongy, osseous kelp forest underneath was extended above the water line: a spongy, osseous rain forest within which fishes swarm. ❋ Unknown (2008)

While bone marrow is part of the osseous system, the bones do not constitute one organ, and marrow-like functions occur in the liver, spleen, and lymph nodes altogether encompassing the reticuloendothelial system. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There is an osseous process from the posterior part of all and each of the vertebra, whether greater or smaller; and upon these processes there are cartilaginous epiphyses, and from them arise nervous productions (ligaments?), akin to the external nerves ❋ Unknown (2007)

The cranium was met with at a depth of a metre and a half [five feet nearly], hidden under an osseous breccia, composed of the remains of small animals, and containing one rhinoceros tusk, with several teeth of horses and of ruminants. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He was osseous, sandy-haired, blue-eyed, with a keen, formidable nose and a solid chin. ❋ Unknown (2004)

He was a strange, tall, dark, osseous man who, owing to the brooding, melancholy character of his own disposition, had a checkered and a somewhat sad career behind him. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Because sulfur is a compound found in or near osseous structures, muscles, tendons, and ligaments, researchers from Oregon Health Sciences University have conducted numerous studies on both animals and humans and have found that when MSM sulfur is taken as a supplement, those with osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and muscle soreness and pain have responded well. ❋ JOHN LUST (2003)

Sixthly, a large animal, with an osseous coat in compartments, very like that of an armadillo. ❋ Unknown (2003)

In the Pampæan deposit at the Bajada I found the osseous armour of a gigantic armadillo-like animal, the inside of which, when the earth was removed, was like a great cauldron; I found also teeth of the Toxodon and Mastodon, and one tooth of a Horse, in the same stained and decayed state. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Yet it may be, that, with the smaller general bulk and the muscular fineness, and the preponderance of brain and nervous system in net bulk over the fleshy and osseous parts of the organism, which generally, though by no means always, characterises the female as distinguished from the male of the human species, there do go mental qualities which will peculiarly fit her for the labours of the future. ❋ Unknown (2003)

There is a resemblance between the osseous and the vascular systems; for each has a central part in which it begins, and each forms a continuous whole. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Nor must there be omitted another strange attestation of the antiquity of the whale, in his own osseous postdiluvian reality, as set down by the venerable John Leo, the old Barbary traveller. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Insects are creatures that, as the name implies, have nicks either on the belly or on the back, or on both belly and back, and have no one part distinctly osseous and no one part distinctly fleshy, but are throughout a something intermediate between bone and flesh; that is to say, their body is hard all through, inside and outside. ❋ Unknown (2002)

So much for the osseous or spinous systems in animals. ❋ Unknown (2002)