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Also known as bones, bone organ, bone and bones

A bone is a rigid organ that constitutes part of the skeleton in most vertebrate animals. Bones protect the organs of the body, produce red and white blood cells, store minerals, help regulate acid-base homeostasis, provide structure and support for the body, and enable mobility and hearing. Bones come in a variety of shapes and sizes and have complex internal and external structures.

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Bone is a subject categorized under "Bones" on Commons, with a corresponding gallery of the same name. It is represented by the Unicode character 🦴. The concept is defined by equivalent classes in DBpedia and Schema.org ontologies. It is also matched exactly by an identifier in the ENVO ontology.

The subject is referenced by 2,618 other encyclopedia articles. It has a Mohs' hardness of 5. A PubMed query for "bone" returns a count of 1,640,389. Additional identifiers include an NCI Thesaurus ID of C12366 and a WordLift URL. The subject is also described at a specific URL on neal.fun.

Synthesized by Vinony from 12 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, PubMed, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

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Anatomy.Name: Bone
Anatomy.Latin: os, ossis
Anatomy.Greek: ὀστέον (ostéon)
Anatomy.Image: Left femur of extinct elephant, Alaska, Ice Age Wellcome L0057714.jpg
Anatomy.Caption: A bone dating from the Pleistocene Ice Age of an extinct species of an elephant, possibly a mammoth
Anatomy.Image2: Bertazzo S - SEM deproteined bone - wistar rat - x10k.tif
Anatomy.Caption2: A scanning electronic micrograph of a Wistar rat's bone at 10,000× magnification