# Fish bone

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{{Short description|Bony skeleton of fish}}
[[File:The skeleton of the black bass (1900) (14586465960).jpg|thumb|300px|right| {{center|Bones of a [black bass](/source/black_bass)}}]]

'''Fish bone''' is any [bony tissue](/source/bony_tissue) in a [fish](/source/fish), although in common usage the term refers specifically to delicate parts of the non-[vertebral](/source/vertebral) skeleton of such as [rib](/source/rib)s, [fin spine](/source/fish_fin)s and intramuscular bones. Not all fish have fish bones in this sense; for instance, [eel](/source/eel)s and [anglerfish](/source/anglerfish) do not possess bones other than the cranium and the vertebrae.

Fish bones support the core muscles without inhibiting their mobility. There are several series of fish bones: Epineuralia, Epicentralia, Epipleuralia and Myorhabdoi.

In cuisine, fish bones are usually removed and not eaten. Because of their slim, tapered shape, fish bones may get swallowed by accident and cause painful [foreign body obstruction](/source/foreign_body_in_alimentary_tract) in the [esophagus](/source/esophagus), which will have to be surgically removed by a doctor. 

Fish bones have been used to [bioremediate](/source/bioremediate) [lead](/source/lead) from contaminated soil.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Environmental Health Perspectives|title=Remediating Soil Lead with Fishbones|date=January 2012|author=Kris S. Freeman |pmc=3261960|volume=120|issue=1|pages=a20–a21|doi=10.1289/ehp.120-a20a|pmid=22214821}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/07/battling-lead-contamination-one-fish-bone-at-a-time/ | title=Battling lead contamination, one fish bone at a time | access-date=2019-05-10 | archive-date=2013-06-14 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130614104453/http://coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/07/battling-lead-contamination-one-fish-bone-at-a-time/ | url-status=dead }}</ref>

==See also==
* [Fish meal](/source/Fish_meal)

==References==
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* {{cite journal |last1=Patterson |first1=Colin |last2=Johnson |first2=G. David |title=The intermuscular bones and ligaments of teleostean fishes |date=1995 |journal=Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology |volume=559 |issue=559 |pages=1–85 |hdl=handle/10088/5150 |doi=10.5479/si.00810282.559 |doi-access=free }}

Category:Fish anatomy

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