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BONE AGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bone age mean? 

BONE AGE (noun)
  The noun BONE AGE has 1 sense:

1. a person's age measured by matching their bone development (as shown by X rays) with bone development of an average person of known chronological ageplay

  Familiarity information: BONE AGE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BONE AGE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A person's age measured by matching their bone development (as shown by X rays) with bone development of an average person of known chronological age

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("bone age" is a kind of...):

age (how long something has existed)


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