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flat bone
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flat bonenoun
part of the sirloin next to the wedge bone
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flat bone
A flat bone is a type of bone characterized by its thin, flattened shape, often providing extensive areas for muscle attachment or protection for vital organs. Examples include the skull, ribs, sternum, and scapulae. These bones also often play a role in the production of red and white blood cells.
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Flat bone
Flat bones are bones whose principal requirement is either extensive protection or the provision of broad surfaces for muscular attachment. These bones are expanded into broad, flat plates, as in the cranium, the ilium, sternum, rib cage, the sacrum and the scapula. The flat bones are: the occipital, parietal, frontal, nasal, lacrimal, vomer, scapula, os coxæ, sternum, and ribs. In the cranial bones, the layers of compact tissue are familiarly known as the tables of the skull; the outer one is thick and tough; the inner is thin, dense, and brittle, and hence is termed the vitreous table. These bones are composed of two thin layers of compact bone enclosing between them a variable quantity of cancellous bone, which is the location of red bone marrow. In an adult, most red blood cells are formed in flat bones. The intervening cancellous tissue is called the diploë, and this, in certain regions of the skull, becomes absorbed so as to leave spaces filled with air between the two tables.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of flat bone in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of flat bone in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
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