A bone was part of a skeleton.
According to Martha Jones, the carpal bones of the human hand included, on the proximal row, scaphoid, lunate, triquetal and pisiform, and on the distal row, trapezium, trapezoid, capitate and hamate. The metacarpal bones extended into three distinct phalanges: proximal, middle and distal. (TV: The Family of Blood [+]Loading...["The Family of Blood (TV story)"])
The bones of Saint Nicholas were kept in a church named for him in Myra. After some sailors from Bari stole the bones, the Second Doctor retrieved them from their ship and replaced them with plastic ones. (PROSE: Saint Nicholas's Bones [+]Loading...["Saint Nicholas's Bones (short story)"])
Permians appeared to be animated skeletons of theropod dinosaurs (despite predating dinosaurs by millions of years), their bodies composed of bone and cartilage and held together by a bioelectric field generated by the brain. (AUDIO: The Land of the Dead [+]Loading...["The Land of the Dead (audio story)"])
Before killing his victims, Zebulon Pryce would use coronic acid to slowly remove the flesh from their bones while leaving the nerves and circulatory system intact. (PROSE: Original Sin [+]Loading...["Original Sin (novel)"])
The Twelfth Doctor named the two-dimensional beings that he encountered in Bristol "the Boneless". (TV: Flatline [+]Loading...["Flatline (TV story)"])
On Corbo, the TARDIS materialised on a pile of bones which formed an island in a swamp. (PROSE: The Devil-Birds of Corbo [+]Loading...["The Devil-Birds of Corbo (short story)"])
According to the Eleventh Doctor, Dalek mutants had no bones in their bodies. (TV: Victory of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Victory of the Daleks (TV story)"])
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Singing The Riddle Song, Bliss recited the line "I gave my love a chicken, it had no bone." (TV: Love & Monsters [+]Loading...["Love & Monsters (TV story)"], PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...["The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"])
Upon encountering a pair of Pinguis, Bibendum and Puff Tremayne, whose lives were unwritten following the Unravel, Jenny Everywhere could feel in her bones that even their names were meta-historical revisions. (PROSE: A World of Pure Unimagination [+]Loading...["A World of Pure Unimagination (short story)"])