long bone

Questions about long bone

What does long bone mean?

long bone means "in limbs of vertebrate animals: a long cylindrical bone that contains marrow".

What is another word for long bone?

Close synonyms include os longum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is long bone a common word?

long bone is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.