Definition of Bare bone

1. Noun. Bone stripped of flesh.

Generic synonyms: Bone, Os

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bare Bone

bare-backed
bare-bones
bare-bottomed
bare-breasted
bare-bum
bare-eared squirrel monkey
bare-eared squirrel monkeys
bare-knuckle
bare-knuckled
bare-shouldered
bare area of liver
bare area of stomach
bare bone (current term)
bare bones
bare hand
bare infinitive
bare infinitives
bare lymphocyte syndrome
bare minimum
bare noun
bare one's breast
bare one's soul
bare one's teeth
bare poles
barearse
barearses

Literary usage of Bare bone

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1913)
"The joint surface of the patella is smooth, but shows bare bone in spots. The patella has been slightly displaced, until it lies over the internal condyle. ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1883)
"At the bottom of the wound the probe detected bare bone over a space about ... The area of bare bone became rough, and granulations pouted about the mouth ..."

3. The Clinical Journal (1896)
"... of bare bone as large as a penny-piece was exposed, and at the anterior Fig. 2. The outer surface of the right temporal bone of a boy, ret. 16. ..."

4. The Diseases of Children: Medical and Surgical by Henry Ashby, George A. Wright, William Perry Northrup, T. Halsted Myers (1893)
"June 3, explored, and bare bone felt at back of ... On the right side bare bone w»s W« Ix'hind and a!x>ve the internal condyle ; a precisely similar ..."

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