n 1  :  a piece of furniture consisting of a smooth flat slab fixed on legs : esp  :  one used for examining or operating <put the patient on the >   2  :  either of the two layers of compact bone of the skull which are separated by cancellous diploe .
 
 
 
Similar sounding terms:  dbl  ta·bel·la  tib·i·al  tib·i·a·le 
 
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