Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That part of zoömetry or anthropometry which has to do with the relative proportions or differences of the skeleton or its individual parts.
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- noun anatomy The
measurement of thebones of theskeleton (both human and animal)
Etymologies
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From osteo- + -metry
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Examples
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Fossil dogs and wolves from Palaeolithic sites in Belgium, the Ukraine and Russia: osteometry, ancient DNA and stable isotopes
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