How To Use Bony In A Sentence

Radiographs of the fingertips of rock climbers, for example, show unusual bony spurs and thickened phalanges.
She suddenly held up a small, bony finger and pointed across the room.
The serving table, attributed to Thomas Seymour, is topped by two extremely rare American knife cases that employ charred poplar to simulate ebony.
The pants were straight legged, so they didn't show any bony legs and yet at the bottom, they still showed the right amount of skin, with no bruising.
That he expressed the general feeling in our train was evidenced by the many women who leaned from the wagons, thrusting out gaunt forearms and shaking bony, labor-malformed fists at the last of Mormondom. Chapter 13

The centrepiece of the pavilion was a grand piano designed by Ruhlmann and made from such exotic materials as amboyna wood and Macassar ebony.
The pronator radii teres, no longer opposed by the supinator brevis, had rotated the anterior fragment into complete pronation and fixed it there, while the supinator brevis, acting on the upper end, had rotated that fragment in an opposite direction and held it fixed until bony union at the point of fracture had taken place. With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon
The classification of bony fish is extremely complicated.
Some twenty minutes after the accident the patient used a spoonlike earpick to remove a bony fragment from deep in his ear canal and we identified this as the malleus that had been fractured at its manubrium.
Many of the islands are mountainous and heavily forested with teak, ebony, and sandalwood.
Pressure ulcers are thought to develop over bony prominences as a result of excessive pressure.
A block of ebony was climbing above the horizon, eclipsing the stars ahead.
For a while, an hour and a half, though she did not know it, until the men came in from the fields trailing dust and slapping their stomachs, Rupban clutched Cheepy-cheepy's limp and bony neck and said only "Coming, coming" to all inquiries about the bird. Excerpt: Brick Lane by Monica Ali
The bed itself was framed in dark ebony, its dusky twists spiraling towards the ceiling, while the rest of the room was swathed in black and shades of maroon and blood red.
It should be noted that they have argued that the development of a bony secondary palate might have originally served as an aid to mastication, although this proposal has not gained currency.
The vertebrates are characterized by the presence of a bony skeleton and a brain.
A bony ridge may form over the fused suture and the ears may not be symmetrical (not at equal heights on each side).
A number of types of armor have been found with it, indicating that primitive as well as advanced titanosaurs possessed bony plates in the skin.
A bony layer of cementum covers the outside of the root, under the gum line, and holds the tooth in place within the jawbone.
I promptly filled the sink with water and dunked my head in, letting my ebony locks flop messily to the sides of my face.
They feed on small bony fishes, snails, worms, shrimps, clams, abalone, and crabs.
Six months ago bony metastases found in her spine. Times, Sunday Times
Ebony could see a dark flicker of movement outside, and a moment later the door opened and a man walked into the room.
In the first half of the eighteenth century ebony rosewood, and padouk were inlaid with floral designs ivory that was then engraved and highlighted with lac.
That leaves the oxygen with a very friendly bond dangling, and it likes to hook up with its nearby carbon buddy, to form what is called the carbonyl bond. Alcohol
The tubing should be positioned away from direct contact with bony prominences, organs, and blood vessels.
Cervical myelopathy describes both a narrowing of the spinal cord and the appearance of bony protrusions in it. Times, Sunday Times
When he stood up his natty blue and white striped pants hung on his bony legs as he leaned on his cane.
Two decades later, a particularly interesting group of compounds made from carbon monoxide - the carbonyls - were discovered by the French chemist Paul Sabatier.
In one bony hand he clutched an oak club driven through with rusty nails.
One preternaturally long bony hand, a length of severed rope dangling from the wrist, clutched with clawed fingers at a sword gash in chain mail stained with dried blood. Conan The Invincible
Sure enough, an extremely tall and bony man descended from the spiral staircase to their right, dressed exquisitely in a solid black suit and tie.
Most fluid-filled products permit a high degree of immersion, allowing the body to sink into the surface as the surface conforms to bony prominences.
Donna was probably the third most beautiful with her ebony black hair and dark, mysterious eyes.
Once in a while the really dense woods, such as boxwood and ebony can fool me, and I really have to work hard to tell the difference between Madasgar and Honduras rosewood.
Egg size affects the larval survivorship of beetles on seeds of Texas ebony.
The shirts tucked into tight, ebony brown rawhide pants, trousers designed to keep the warmth in and the cold out.
Metal carbonyls have high oscillator strength, large absorption coefficients, and strong electronic resonance in the visible and ultraviolet regimes, making them excellent spectroscopic probes.
Also common is torus palatinus, a slow growing, asymptomatic, benign bony lump in the midline of the palate.
The bony armor of the earliest jawless fish was dermal bone; so are shark scales, shoulder blades, and the roof of your skull.
In the present creation fishes are either osseous or cartilaginous, that is, with bony skeletons, or with a framework of elastic, semi-transparent animal matter, like the shark; and the ichthyolites of the Old Red Sandstone unite these characteristics, resembling in some respects the osseous and in others the cartilaginous tribes. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science
We had a long haired black cat by the name of Ebony, but his nickname was Sir Cat because he was all CAT-ATUDE.
Comfort measures are initiated intraoperatively, including use of a temperature-regulating blanket and IV fluid warmer and padding all bony prominences.
If bony tissue is not palpable, the application of a ligature around the pedicle allows the digit to fall off.
He used to have a seventh thrall, an ex-stripper named Ebony, but Eric packed her and her two kids up and sent them to live out at Orchard Lake with the werewolves, then released her from thralldom. Crossed
Skate - he imagined that was one of those flat bony fish, with the teeth showing in a sardonic grin.
Low molecular weight aldehydes and ketones are soluble in water because the carbonyl oxygen atom allows the molecules to form strong hydrogen bonds with the molecules of water.
He has constructed a pandaemonium in an upper story of his museum, in which he has congregated all the images of horror that his fertile fancy could devise; dwarfs that by machinery grow into giants before the eyes of the spectator; imps of ebony with eyes of flame; monstrous reptiles devouring youth and beauty; lakes of fire, and mountains of ice; in short, wax, paint and springs have done wonders. Domestic Manners of the Americans
He might have been an ebony statue, larger than life, his hands gripping the arms of the chair.
The thing was a complex mess of bony laminae and concavities (termed fossae), few of which were symmetrical when you compared the two sides. ‘Angloposeidon’, the unreported story, part I
He chafed a begrimed hand across a similarly soiled mouth, maw gaping wide in a grin, to reveal ebony teeth with fallow flashes of gold.
Patten, a tall, bony man with a balding dome of a forehead, makes his living loaning money to ranchers.
He saddled and bridled Ebony, untied the halter, and led his horse carefully through the trees.
The New Yorker essayist George Plimpton also remembered that invasion of the Harlem peacocks in their enormous purple Cadillacs: "I'd never seen crowds as fancy, especially the men – felt hatbands and feathered capes, and the stilted shoes, the heels like polished ebony, and many smoking stuff in odd meerschaum pipes. The night Muhammad Ali's legend was reborn – and the party that followed
It is possible that enols exist in flames as a consequence of interconversion with carbonyls at equilibrium.
She was a beauty at Nineteen with long black ebony hair, with silver high light that flowed down the center of her back stopping with a neat trim at her waist.
The Indian furniture was usually of ebony, padouk, or rosewood with the floral borders and motifs either inlaid or engraved on ivory veneer.
She suddenly held up a small, bony finger and pointed across the room.
A bunion looks like a swollen, red, bony bump at the base of the big toe.
However, they can be present with pain, proptosis, restricted ocular motility, visual impairment, globe displacement or palpable bony mass.
Unlike the turbot the upper body surface is covered with small scales, not the bony tubercles of the larger species.
The physician should palpate bony prominences and tendinous insertions near the heel and midfoot, noting any tenderness or palpable defects.
There was no tenderness on bony palpation over the paranasal sinuses.
The sternum consists of segments, the sternebrae (st.); anteriorly there is a bony manubrium (mb.), posteriorly a thin cartilaginous plate, the xiphisternum (xi.). Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
They generally develop over a bony prominence where soft tissue is damaged from external pressure exerted over the hard surface of the skeletal structure.
A bony elbow poked through a hole in his sweater.
It might be better to restore the underlying bony framework of the face to its youthful proportions. Times, Sunday Times
The understanding of many important chemistries is being advanced by the use of ReactIR ™ because it provides detailed information about key reactive species and their concentrations under a range of challenging environments including organometallic, polymer, hydroformylation, carbonylation and hydrogenation chemistries, among others. PRWeb - Daily News Feed
Castings with a pedestal of ebony or mahogany add grandeur to the commission.
Her ebony tresses were arranged in short angled lines that I guessed must be all the rage in Paris. Arcane Circle
The carbonyl group can be broken down by the action of hydrogen cyanide; a hydroxyl group and a nitrile group are formed in this reaction.
They were streamlined, laterally compressed fish with a bony skeleton and thick bony scales.
In two of the chapels there are some fine altar-pieces by Holbein and one of his scholars; and a very large crucifix of silver and ebony, which is kept with great care, is said to have been carried with the Crusaders to the Holy Land. Views a-foot
Her skin used to be clear, but now it was blotchy and there were still a few nasty bruises on her bony legs.
Forming a vast expansion of the bony and fleshy framework are the quills, or flight-feathers, called collectively the "remiges. Our Bird Comrades
The thing was a complex mess of bony laminae and concavities (termed fossae), few of which were symmetrical when you compared the two sides. Archive 2006-07-01
Like other sharp-sighted animals, the eye sockets are protected by a bony ring.
As nearly as could be judged in that tangled hair and beard, the giant's features were acromegalic, eyes roofed with bony ridges, nose and jaw jutting coarsely forth, heavy lips and grisly huge teeth. Three Hearts and Three Lions
bony fish
But only eat sardines between May and October - they're too bony the rest of the year.
Copper, horses, and cloth were also traded for gold, malagueta pepper, carved ivory, and ebony.
Once in a while the really dense woods, such as boxwood and ebony can fool me, and I really have to work hard to tell the difference between Madasgar and Honduras rosewood.
He once confessed to owning the prized possessions of a superb board of bird's-eye maple and Moluccan ebony, edged in sycamore, an 1871 boxwood and ebony Staunton set, plus a chess clock by Grant's of Stamford.
I had seen photographs of him in magazines---a cadaverous dandy with a cap of bootblack hair scraped back from his bony brow. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
For successful management of pressure ulcers, both cutaneous and subcutaneous tissues need to be grafted, particularly over bony prominences.
Quite a few species once thought to be extinct have been rediscovered in recent times, including the local ebony (Trochetiopsis ebenus), St. Helena olive (Nesiota elliptica), false gumwood (Commidendrum spurium) and bastard gumwood (Commidendrum rotundifolium). St. Helena scrub and woodlands
It wasn't until he'd resumed his human form again that he wondered uneasily how there could be so much meat on Dan-delo's bony old nag and why it had been so soft and warm, so full of uncoagulated blood. The Dark Tower
The board materials they use are pretty sweet too, featuring amboyna, ebony and spalted maple. Archive 2008-02-01
Most sunscreens are aromatic compounds conjugated with a carbonyl group with an electron-releasing amine or methoxyl group substituted in the ortho - or para - position.
Cristobel was a lumpish thirty-odd, and Bernard a bony about-the-same. DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
These include the bonytail chub, humpback chub, Sonora chub, Chihuahua chub, beautiful shiner, Pecos bluntnose shiner, razorback sucker, Colorado squawfish, Pyramid Lake cui-ui and Lahontan cutthroat trout. North American Deserts ecoregion (CEC)
Even Barack Obama might think that a very fat sprat to catch a rather bony mackerel. Financial Times circulation drifts in turbulent times
Dark marks ringed the boy's bony wrist, livid against pale flesh.
But Nicole claims that she's always been a tiny bony little waif, and during season one of The Simple Life, she was going through a rare chubby period.
They were like young and beautiful Dantes carved in ebony; Dantes unembittered by the world, unsicklied by the pale cast of thought, and glowing with the life of the warm South. A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
It can be striped with black or with shades of brown; these varieties are called calamander wood or variegated ebony.
Two pairs of epibranchials are present in adults, one bony and one cartilaginous, compared to a single pair in most other families, and the protractor muscle encompasses both epibranchials.
Uncovering patterns of morphological change within Polypteridae provides an important opportunity to evaluate if the mechanisms underlying morphological evolution are shared among actinoptyerygians, and in fact, perhaps the entire osteichthyan (bony fish and tetrapods) tree of life. BioMed Central - Latest articles
The culinary exploits were pursued further with the progress to open sandwiches, having a flat molecule on one side of the metal atom, and with only small molecules such as carbonyl, methyl or ethyl groups on the other side. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1973 - Presentation Speech
FTIR results indicate that terbium ions coordinated with the carbonyl groups in polyurethane molecular chains.
These fish do not have gills or opercula (gill coverings) like most bony fishes.
Fractures of the bony processes surrounding the elbow-joint, and of the malleoli of the tibia and fibula, were not infrequent, but offered no special features. Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre
They arise from a permanent bony base on the frontals called a pedicel.
They cost from 664 in lacquer, wenge and walnut, and 934 in ebony. Times, Sunday Times
Your vertebrae begin to grow together, forming vertical bony outgrowths and becoming stiff and inflexible.
The water is strained through a series of bony plates that trap the small creatures making up the baleen whale's main diet.
The vibrant frequency of carbonyl is concerned with the force - constant and convert - mass of the carbonyl.
The insulin of the more advanced bony fish, reptiles, and mammals is a little cluster of six chains. The Runaway Brain: the Evolution of Human Uniqueness
What is called a bony lesion by the osteopath and a subluxation by the chiropractor, is in reality a "ligatight," that is, a shrunken condition of the connective tissue forming the various ligaments that bind the vertebrae together. Nature Cure
Sometimes referred to in neurosurgical circles as "God's little joke", the bony pterion is not just a hazard zone because it is so thin, but also on account of a big artery, the middle meningeal, which runs immediately beneath it. The Guardian World News
In bony vertebrates, endochondral bones form from centers of ossification in the chondrocranium, although much of the braincase often remains cartilage.
There are 34 full-color photographs of beautiful gages made of ebony, rosewood, boxwood, mahogany, cherry, applewood, whalebone, ivory etc.
The pirarucu's sheer size and bony armor provide defenses against predators.
A bony elbow poked through a hole in his sweater.
She is very bony and slim; she is unhealthy skinny for being only twenty-eight.
Framed in ebony with a deep terracotta mount she found herself looking at one of her own watercolours. SANDS OF TIME
I worked out that about 60% of each of its lateral surfaces was occupied by the fossae that housed lateral air sacs, and because the specimen is broken in half I could also see that very little of its interior was filled up by internal bony struts: most of it would have been air. Archive 2006-07-01
Their skin is covered with non-overlapping scales composed of the protein keratin and often studded with bony plates called scutes.
In the gloaming I watch the audience scramble in, middle-aged women with puffy legs wearing tiny dresses, and see-through black silk shirts over cretonne bosoms propped up on bony rolling lacy corsets.
Enols are less stable than carbonyls, and standard combustion mechanisms assume that they do not play a role.
The diamond-patterned tortoiseshell panel, offset with faux dentils of ivory and macassar ebony, recalls patterns he also used for wall hangings.
I recall one small urchin without a rag of clothing save the basque waist of a lady's dress, bristling with whalebones, and worn wrong side before, beneath which his smooth ebony legs emerged like those of an ostrich from its plumage.
It is a left-sided flatfish, with its eyes normally on the left side of the head, and it is scaleless, though its head and body are studded with numerous bony knobs, or tubercles.
Her camisole shifted, hanging down to reveal her bony chest. Choker
The meat from these fish is white, flaky, and sweet, but bony.
The uneven topography alternated between blocks of ice mesas, deep ice craters, bony ice ridges, and rolling ice dunes glowing an otherworldly sapphire-blue.
It is known, however, that the ligament fibers do not necessarily run in a straight line and may curve over other soft tissue or bony prominences.
A bony layer of cementum covers the outside of the root, under the gum line, and holds the tooth in place within the jawbone.
Toni's and Jos's were conventional longswords, carried in long slender cases that looked like instrument cases, but Paul carried only an elegant sword cane, an antique, ebony with a silver ferrule and a large cairngorm set into the silver ball-handle. Spirits White As Lightning
He understood wood completely: sheathing, siding, clapboard, cord; walnut, ebony, hickory, beam. BEHINDLINGS
The ebony veneered case was probably made by one of the other Flemish artisans active in Rome in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
Notables, some were of balass-ruby and some of carnelian, others of coral or Comorin aloes-wood and yet others of ebony or silver or gold; and each had his own idol, after the measure of his competence; whilst the idols of the common soldiers and of the people were some of granite, some of wood, some of pottery and some of mud; and all were of various hues yellow and red; green, black and white. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
These fish do not have gills or opercula (gill coverings) like most bony fishes.
Her ebony black hair was loose on her shoulders and I noticed that she wore no make up.
The whole skull of a bony flatfish retains the twisted and distorted evidence of its origins.
But I still prefer my own, a Victorian ivory and ebony conductor's baton.
Even though all that could be seen of him was his light brown cloak, black scarf and icy ebony hair, the people staring at him had their shoulders tensed in hostility.
She let her head hang down and her velvet, ebony hair cascaded down her shoulders.
The dress she's wearing only just covers her thin and bony frame, and her spindly legs poke out above long white lumpy kneesocks.
The flexor sheath is a membranous structure, which surrounds the flexor tendons from the metacarpal neck to the volar plate of the distal interphalangeal joint and is attached longitudinally to the underlying bony structures.
The bony plates on the armadillos' back serves as protective armour from predators.
A few modern fishes, including the coelacanth, the African bichir Polypterus, and three genera of lungfishes, retained lungs … In two major lineages of derived bony fishes - the chondrosteans and the teleosts -- lungs evolved to swim bladders by atrophy of vascular tissue to create a more or less empty sac and, in some cases, by loss of the connecting tube to the esophagus (called the trachea in humans and other creatures with lungs). Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
Osteopathy, chiropractic, naprapathy, neurotherapy and spondylotherapy, as we have learned, are various systems of maipulative treatment which have been devised mainly to correct spinal and other bony lesions, shrinkage and contracture of muscles, ligaments and other connective tissues. Nature Cure
This bone lies on the roof of the frog's mouth, and bears a number of denticles, and altogether there is a very strong resemblance in it to a number of placoid scales the bony bases of which have become confluent. Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
She suddenly held up a small, bony finger and pointed across the room.
The horns of cows and sheep grow over a bony core that resembles the horn in shape, so anything with a slightly twisted cone of rough-surfaced bone is unlikely to be human.
But they are stiff, bony fish and the young birds cannot eat them easily. Times, Sunday Times
One creature looked sort of elfish, except for its darker dark navy color that was almost ebony.
She would show the glittering arch of her upper third, occasionally, and scrape it along behind the comblike row; sometimes a pinnacle stood straight up, like a statuette of ebony, against that glittering white shield, then seemed to glide out of it by its own volition and power, and become a dim specter, while the next pinnacle glided into its place and blotted the spotless disk with the black exclamation-point of its presence. A Tramp Abroad
a bony process
Before extraction of the tooth, the gingival form and bony architecture must be evaluated.
But in coelacanths, lungfishes and some primitive sharks, the transformation of notochord into a segmented bony vertebral column does not take place.
Disease may also include chest wall invasion, with bony erosion, and draining cutaneous fistulas.
Those produced by the hypochordal lobe of the caudal fin of selachians and early bony fishes have been studied in detail.
The team found that the key appears to be joints in the bony vertebrae that wrap protectively around the spinal cord.
Yet, her arms were so thin and bony that Sandra was reminded of the anorexic girl from her math class, the one that dreamed of being a ballerina, but later on had to be hospitalized for her food disorder.
Sure enough, lampreys are simple vertebrates lacking jaws, teeth and a bony skeleton, whereas sharks are much more complex animals.
Before she left, she was given an array of presents from former students, including an ebony carving of a Masai family.
Because of its lack of bony stability, the glenohumeral joint is the most commonly dislocated major joint in the body.
A whole-body bone scan showed no evidence of bony metastases, and a mammogram showed no evidence of malignancy.
She suddenly held up a small, bony finger and pointed across the room. The Broken God
A well-padded leg holder for the nonsurgical leg, such as a low lithotomy stirrup, is needed to prevent unnecessary pressure on muscles and bony prominences.
Since sturgeons and paddlefish have lost many traits of most bony fish - they lack scales and have a cartilaginous skeleton - their fossil records are very sparse.
However, for L-amino acids such as Asp or Asn, interactions between the side-chain carbonyl group with the carbonyl of the main-chain peptide bond can give rise to relative stabilisation of a conformation with a positive φ angle Box plots for the substitution scores by the class of secondary structure. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
Finally, the outer layer of connective cells surrounding the interior portions of the eye, a thin cartilaginous or bony tissue known as the sclera, is formed entirely from migratory neural crest cells.
The large angular bony head inhibits its swimming. Food Watch
The main body of the element comprises a longitudinal bony buttress that supports a very slight sigmoid row containing a minimum of five shallow tooth sockets.
What's more, they were only scattered bony scales and plates.
The spinal column is composed of seven cervical vertebrae, twelve thoracic vertebrae, five lumbar vertebrae, the bony sacrum, and the coccyx.
Then came forward the Persian sage and, prostrating himself before the King, presented him with a horse5 of the blackest ebony-wood inlaid with gold and jewels, and ready harnessed with saddle, bridle and stirrups such as befit Kings; which when Sabur saw, he marvelled with exceeding marvel and was confounded at the beauty of its form and the ingenuity of its fashion. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
When a hole forms, stem cells in the tooth pulp turn into bony tissue called dentine, which protects against infection. The Sun
His bony, spindly arms, protruding from the black cloth draping his shoulder, pushed the cart by means of a heavy cord; his arm muscles, if there were any, did not show any strain.
The dark brown colour of his eyes matched his ebony hair.
He blinked his ebony black eyes, the irises twinkling with delight.
This is a Federal-period game table by Robert G. Stevenson of mahogany, primavera, satinwood, ebony, holly, and pine.
While the bony core is unforked, its keratinous covering is forked ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
The fingerboard and tailpiece are now usually of ebony (boxwood was formerly used) Just within the margins of belly and back, a groove in the wood is filled with ‘purfling’: thin strips of some other wood, contrasting in colour and pattern.
In this study, the levels of reactive carbonyl compounds in commercial carbonated soft drinks were found to be astonishingly high. High-fructose corn syrup fights back | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
She kept glancing at the massive Mickey Mouse watch that dangled round her thin bony wrist.
Its wood, which is very heavy and of a fallow colour, has the grain and smell of ebony.
These irregular metal components encourage bony ingrowth, allowing a patient's bone cells to intertwine with the irregular metal finish, which holds the implants securely in place.
Their scaleless body is covered in hard bony plates.
Since sturgeons and paddlefish have lost many traits of most bony fish - they lack scales and have a cartilaginous skeleton - their fossil records are very sparse.
One evening when he was thus standing in the garden, abstractedly spudding up a weed with his stick, a bony figure turned the corner of the house and came up to him. The Return of the Native
The following Sunday I took my husband into hospital to be relieved of a bony hip in favour of a titanium one.
A bunion is an abnormal, bony bump that forms on the joint at the base of your big toe.
Jilkes writhed inside his flashy suiting, cracked his bony knuckles and looked up at the ceiling, as if for inspiration. THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE
It differs from other acids in that the fluoride ion readily penetrates the skin and causes destruction of deep tissue layers, including bony decalcification .
Since the two iliac bones are bound strongly together at the centre front, the bony pelvis (sacrum and iliac bones) can only be tilted as a whole by movement at the hip joints and by bending the spine.
The man's skin was almost as parchment-like as Lord Scion's was, and an aquiline nose jutted out from the man's bony cheeks.
Bony struts, called laminae, divide the fossae and connect the main ‘landmarks’ of the bone (such as the pre - and postzygapophyses), and each of these laminae has a name. ‘Angloposeidon’, the unreported story, part II
They were tough, bony, slightly burnt and very difficult to eat.
Chrysophyllum perpulchrum (Q) and Chidlowia sanguinea; and the 'Sassandrian' forest in the south-west, dominated by water-demanding species such as ebony Diospyros spp. and Mapania spp. with numerous endemic species, especially in the lower Cavally Valley and the Meno and Hana depressions near Mont Niénokoué. Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire
Oxidation of primary alcohols to carboxylic acids Alcohols possessing two hydroxy groups located on adjacent carbons - that is, 1,2-diols - suffer oxidative breakage at a carbon-carbon bond with some oxidants such as sodium periodate (NaIO4) or lead tetraacetate (Pb (OAc) 4), resulting in generation of two carbonyl groups. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
One by one, shadowy, transparent figures of skinny, bony people appeared all around.
The longest bony fish in the sea, it grows up to nine metres long with a bright red crest that runs the entire length of its body.
the bony excrescence between its horns
The insulin of the more advanced bony fish, reptiles, and mammals is a little cluster of six chains. The Runaway Brain: the Evolution of Human Uniqueness
There are few in the world who would not recognise his bony, bearded face and gaunt frame. Times, Sunday Times
Where other fish have scales, the sturgeon has an armour of bony plates with a few lines of these protruding scutes running down the length of the fish.

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