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Definition of Limeless
1. having no lime [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Limeless
Literary usage of Limeless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopædia of the Diseases of Children: Medical and Surgical by John Marie Keating (1889)
"... inner layers (older) of calcified bone; 12, green-stick fracture, buttresses
of soft, limeless bone on anterior surface and on posterior surface; 13, ..."
2. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1876)
"5 illustrates the process with an almost diagramatic clearness. This drawing is
taken at the spot where direct new- formed bone joins the limeless cartilage ..."
3. Surgery, Its Principles and Practice by William Williams Keen (1907)
"In the long bones there is marked absorption of the trabeculae with a marked new
formation of a limeless material about the trabeculae ..."
4. Anatomy of the Invertebrata by Carl Th. Ernst Siebold (1874)
"... one of their surfaces, they consist of a soft limeless substance, — often
rendering in vain the search for them in specimens long preserved in alcohol. ..."
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