Sentence examples for bone rather than the from inspiring English sources

Everyone gets to be a star in Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, which tend to take aim at the funny bone rather than the heart.

Although considerable flesh is bared in this mildly sexy movie, "Elektra Luxx" doesn't quite qualify as soft-core fare; its principal goal is to tickle the funny bone rather than the libido.

This gave it access to two new products, including Baha, an implant that allows sound to be conducted through the bone rather than the middle ear.

Some surgeons used the calvarial bone of the intramembranous bone rather than the ilium of the endochondral bone, because of the similarity of the bones' histology and development [31].

Spontaneous/exercise-related pain in the extremities in association with tenderness localized over the bone rather than the joint, particularly in the absence of other signs of rheumatoid activity, should make the clinician suspect a stress fracture.

First, geographically based environmental stimuli lead to continuous physical adaptations in skin, hair and bone rather than the discrete differences associated with race; and second, although mitochondrial DNA mutations provide evidence of the geographical origins of populations, these mutations do not correlate with the physical traits associated with racial groups.

Fifth, a torsion test is not osteotomy site-specific, as it determines the weakest point of the bone rather than measuring the strength at the osteotomy sites.

The muscle was bluntly split proximally to gain access to drill the bone, rather than disrupting the periosteal blood supply by stripping the bone.

Leaving the bone attached to the samples had a strong protective effect and increasing the impact energy was found to result in damage to the bone rather than to the cartilage [ 24], an effect not investigated within the present study.

The findings led the institute to recommend that police officers and other workers on bicycles use "no-nose" saddles, which put pressure on the sit bones, rather than the soft tissue of the perineum.

Dr. Elise G. Hewitt, president of the American Chiropractic Association's (ACA) Pediatrics Council, says using that strap will help distribute the weight onto the hip bones, rather than the shoulders.