The word "rudiment" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the basic elements or principles of something. For example, "I'm learning the rudiments of coding."
Meanwhile, local areas of the mesodermal mesenchyme in the interior of the limb rudiment condense; these are the rudiments of the various components of the limb skeleton.
In fishes, small outgrowths from the myotomes enter the limb rudiment to form the muscles of the fins.
Still another method of rudiment formation in a germinal layer is by the development of local thickenings, elongated or round, and detachment from the epithelial sheet.
The latter appear in a very early stage of development as lateral protrusions from the wall of the neural tube, which are constricted off from the remainder of the brain rudiment as the optic vesicles.
An organ rudiment may be formed and separated from such a sheet in several ways.
This is the way the nervous system rudiment is formed in vertebrates as already described.
The rudiments of the new Scotland bill confirmed in the Queen's speech, including powers to raise 40% of taxes and decide about 60% of public spending, appear to follow faithfully the draft legislation laid out by David Cameron in Edinburgh in January.
The city has all the rudiments of Jewish life, with many working synagogues, Jewish schools, and a kosher butcher and cake shop.
At any rate, she has not yet put in place even the rudiments of a campaign team, having only just hired a chief of staff to co-ordinate her political activities.Mike Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas and the runner-up in the primaries of 2008, is also coy about his plans.
He had learnt the rudiments of music from a nun at a boarding school where he was placed after his father was killed in the first world war.
Mr Gigerenzer argues that being risk savvy is important if people are to protect themselves from being manipulated by politicians, doctors, financial advisers and others who claim to be looking out for their best interests.Being risk savvy is about more than understanding the rudiments of probability theory and human psychology.
