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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of several elongated bones of vertebrate limbs that have a roughly cylindrical shaft containing marrow.

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  • noun anatomy Any of the relatively slender bones of the upper and lower extremities.

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  • noun in limbs of vertebrate animals: a long cylindrical bone that contains marrow

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