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osteological

osteological adjective: of or relating to osteology.

Adjective

osteological (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to osteology.
    • Researchers such as Meyer (2016), for instance, warn against precise diagnoses of specific vitamin-related deficiencies in light of the ways that nutritional deficiency and metabolic disease can elicit similar osteological responses (or none at all) and the fact that these two conditions are often...2023, Anne L. Grauer, “Introduction” (chapter 1), in The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, page 7

Origin of osteological

From osteology + -ical.

Words formed from osteological

Questions about osteological

What does osteological mean?
Osteological means of or relating to osteology.
What part of speech is osteological?
Osteological is an adjective.

Words near osteological in the dictionary

  1. osteolithic
  2. osteoliths
  3. osteologer
  4. osteologers
  5. osteologic
  6. osteological
  7. osteologically
  8. osteologies
  9. osteologist
  10. osteologists
  11. osteology

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