High in the Caucasus Mountains, buried beneath the cold floor of a limestone cave, archaeologists have found something small, sharp, and quietly revolutionary. It is just about 9 centimeters long (3.5 ...

A comminuted fracture is when the bone breaks into several pieces A transverse fracture is when the fracture line is perpendicular to the shaft (long part) of the bone. An oblique fracture is when ...

An 80,000-year-old bone point found in Eastern Europe challenges the idea that migrating Homo sapiens gave the technology to Neandertals.

That's when they noticed something very strange: The man appeared to have "ossification" along the entire shaft of his penis, according to the report. In other words, bone had formed inside the penis.

The cortical part of bone accounts for roughly 80% of a human's bone mass and is the outer shaft of the bone that gives it its shape. The remaining 20% of bone mass is made up by the trabecular ...

That’s a raised area where two ligaments attach. Tibia shaft. The shaft is the long part of the bone that bears your weight. It has an anterior border you can feel just under your skin on your ...

We developed a customized protocol for evaluation of volumetric bone mineral density (vBMD) and microstructure at the metacarpal head (MH), metacarpal shaft (MS) and ultra-ultra-distal (UUD ...

The forelimb, with a “bulge” of abnormal bone growth near the shaft, belonged to a “subadult” that had completed its most rapid growth phase but was still growing, according to researchers.