osteology

osteology

English

Etymology

osteo- +‎ -logy

Noun

osteology (usually uncountable, plural osteologies)

1. (anatomy) The scientific study of the morphology and pathology of bones.
2. (anatomy) The bone structure of a particular individual, or species.

Related terms

• osteological
• osteologically
• osteologist

Translations

study of bones

Breton: askornoniezh (br) f Catalan: osteologia f Chinese: Mandarin: 骨學／骨学 (zh) (gǔxué) Finnish: osteologia (fi), luututkimus, luututkimus French: ostéologie (fr) f Galician: osteoloxía (gl) f German: Osteologie (de) f, Knochenlehre f, Lehre vom Bau und den Krankheiten der Knochen f (descriptive) Greek: οστεολογία (el) f (osteología), σκελετολογία (el) f (skeletología) Gujarati: અસ્થિવિજ્ઞાન (asthivijñān) Hindi: अस्थि विज्ञान (asthi vigyān), अस्थिविज्ञान (asthivigyān) Hungarian: csonttan (hu), oszteológia Japanese: 骨学 (kotsugaku) Kazakh: сүйектану (süiektanu) Korean: 골학(骨學) (golhak) Nepali: अस्थि विज्ञान (asthi vigyāna) Plautdietsch: Knoakekonnst f Polish: osteologia (pl) f Portuguese: osteologia f Russian: остеоло́гия (ru) f (osteológija) Swedish: osteologi (sv) c Tagalog: palabutuhan, dalubbutuan Tamil: எலும்பியல் (elumpiyal)

bone structure of a particular individual or species

Finnish: luusto (fi) German: artspezifischer Knochenbau m (species) Portuguese: ossatura

See also

• orthopedics