Sentence examples for scant bone from inspiring English sources

When protected by the bisphosphonate, this early, scant bone served as a scaffold for continued bone growth, leading to the formation of a bony shell.

It's bracingly poignant, the contrast between these scant bones – this is not an exciting life – and the immense bulk of the journals.

The explanation appears to be that very scant, patchy loose bone or osteoid formed also around the control screws after 1 week, but then disappeared when resorption was not suppressed.

Yet he could not forgo the thrill of shooting them, then picking them up, feeling the scant flesh on the bone, and snapping off a side feather to post to an ornithologist in England.

Georges Cuvier, an early palaeontologist, made his reputation by predicting the anatomies of newly discovered fossil species from scant evidence, such as single bones.

11 17 There is scant evidence comparing MRI and MIBI bone marrow scans in assessing disease activity in MM in a cohort of this size.

But the waters apparently were also acidic, which totally dissolved the creature's bones and left only scant traces of its teeth.

And the coolly calculating Chinese and Russians, while occasionally throwing him a bone, pursue their interests with scant regard to Obama's preferences.

Evidence for a direct link between insulin and bone formation in vivo is scant.

Cartilage was seen in scant amounts in 3 cases, all dominated by new woven bone formation.

Large series data regarding the value of routine bone scan in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma are scant.