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Ptah

(33,041 posts) Thu Jun 18, 2020, 03:54 PM Jun 2020

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I heard a new-to-me word today while watching PBS

Osteoderm

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I heard a new-to-me word today while watching PBS (Original Post) Ptah Jun 2020 OP

Osteoderms are Ilsa Jun 2020 #1

Skin fat was my first thought but that would be "Oleo", I think. yonder Jun 2020 #2

I had to look it up 🙂 MLAA Jun 2020 #3

Close in shot of Kellyanne. n/t cloudbase Jun 2020 #4

How can it not be the skin of an osterich? Phentex Jun 2020 #5

Ilsa

(61,698 posts)

1. Osteoderms are

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Thu Jun 18, 2020, 04:01 PM

Jun 2020

Osteoderms are bony deposits forming scales, plates or other structures based in the dermis.

yonder

(9,678 posts)

2. Skin fat was my first thought but that would be "Oleo", I think.

Reply to Ptah (Original post)

Thu Jun 18, 2020, 04:01 PM

Jun 2020

Gotta be skin bones or bones/calcium in the skin, right? I'm a looking it up now.

MLAA

(17,330 posts)

3. I had to look it up 🙂

Reply to Ptah (Original post)

Thu Jun 18, 2020, 04:02 PM

Jun 2020

cloudbase

(5,525 posts)

4. Close in shot of Kellyanne. n/t

Reply to Ptah (Original post)

Thu Jun 18, 2020, 04:23 PM

Jun 2020

Phentex

(16,334 posts)

5. How can it not be the skin of an osterich?

Reply to Ptah (Original post)

Thu Jun 18, 2020, 06:59 PM

Jun 2020

as one would expect

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