camellateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

camellate (not comparable)

1. (of a bone) Having many small internal spaces, rather than fewer larger ones.
   • 2005, Kristina Curry Rogers, The Sauropods: Evolution and Paleobiology, page 212:

     For example, the long bones of birds and mammals are usually tubular at midshaft, but the epiphyses mostly consist of marrow-filled trabecular bone or pneumatic camellate bone.

派生語

• camellation
• procamellate

関連する語

• camerate