osteology

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Experts in fields ranging from fine art, osteology, computer tomology, and craniofacial reconstruction worked together to create the likenesses from two mummies acquired abroad and brought to Baltimore more than a century ago.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 8, 2018

He holds a plastic skull in his hand, quizzing another student, Lauren Glick, for an osteology exam.

From National Geographic • Jul. 29, 2016

P. Willey, a physical anthropologist who specializes in osteology, or the study of bones, who was then at the University of Tennessee, was one of several experts who studied the remains.

From Washington Times • Feb. 9, 2015

The extinct California turkey, Meleagris californica, from Rancho La Brea: comparative osteology and systematics.

From Scientific American • Jan. 16, 2013

He didn't seem, however, to have any such passion for osteology.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various