Sentence examples for unique bone from inspiring English sources

It's a unique bone not seen in other vertebrates and thus acts as an excellent link to confirm that birds really are living dinosaurs.

It is also recognized diagnostically as a ceratopsian by the presence of a unique bone called the rostral, a toothless upper beak bone that opposed the lower predentary found in all ornithischians.

Hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) reside in unique bone marrow niches and are influenced by signals from surrounding cells, the extracellular matrix (ECM), ECM-bound or diffusible biomolecules.

In conjunction, cancers that develop bone metastases likely have the capacity to utilize these unique bone environments for colonization and bone destruction.

On the tip of a ceratopsian upper jaw is the rostral bone, a unique bone found nowhere else in the animal kingdom.

For example, the reason they can hover is because their unique bone structure allows them to create lift on the upswing, as well as the downswing of their wings.

Several studies have shown that an acetabular reconstruction with bone impaction grafting creates a unique bone-cement-cup interface (Heekin et al. 1995, van der Donk et al. 2002).

Osteocalcin is unique to bone tissue and it is the most abundant in noncollagenous bone protein.

Psittacosaurus skulls shared several adaptations with more derived ceratopsians, such as the unique rostral bone at the tip of the upper jaw, and the flared jugal (cheek) bones.

Because the mandible of rodents is constituted by a unique dentary bone of relatively simple shape, most of the landmarks taken were of type 2 (i.e. maxima of curvature – Fig. 3; [15]).

Three unique human bone marrow-derived MSC (BM-MSC) lines were obtained from Dr. D. Prockop (Tulane University) and maintained at low density in αMEM with 10% FBS (Invitrogen), L-Glutamine, NEM Nonessential Amino Acids and Sodium Pyruvate (all from Cellgro).