bone fragment
Piece of skeleton
A bone fragment is a piece of bone broken off from a larger bone structure.
The term appears in medical contexts describing fractures, archaeological reports on skeletal remains, and forensic investigations: Bone fragments were recovered from the crash site.
In cooking, bone fragments are unwanted bits that may remain in deboned meat or fish.
- shardBroken fragment of something brittle
- splinterThin sharp fragment
- chipSmall broken-off piece
- sliverThin split-off piece
- fractureSplit in hard material
skeleton · calcium · fossil · remains · shatter · break · crack · jagged · white · brittle · archaeological · dig site · dig · burial · grave · mass grave · human remains · forensic
- fragmentsshard, splinter, shards, sliver, chip
- archaeologyexcavation, dig site, archaeologist, dig, archaeological digs
- foreign bodiessplinter, glass shard, bullet, shrapnel, thorn
- anatomybrain, heart, liver, stomach, kidney
- ancient ruinsStonehenge, Pompeii, Colosseum, coliseum, Machu Picchu
- animal remainsskeleton, carcass, carrion, remains, skull