ossuary

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a burial place or receptacle for human remains

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any receptacle for the burial of human bones

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The actual bone house is built by the visionary and eccentric Matt.
The bone house became, for her, a place of calm, comfort and unusual beauty.
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It also looks at the uses for various parts of the animals aside from the meat, such as bone houses made from their bones, and clothes made from their skin.
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The core of the petrous bone houses the labyrinth, cranial nerves VII and VIII, the internal carotid artery, and the jugular bulb.
Incidental petrous apex findings on magnetic resonance imaging
175, for example, where "beinhusern' becomes bone houses rather that charnel houses and Cardinal Borromeo becomes an almost anonymous Carlo Borromea.
Zurcher Beitrage zur Reformationsgeschichte, vol. 16, Clerical Discipline and the Rural Reformation: The Synod in Zurich, 1532-1580
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