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Definition of Bare bone
1. Noun. Bone stripped of flesh.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bare Bone
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 ..."