Crossword-Solution: BNA 3 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 5

The only set of terms which at the present time seems to have any chance of general acceptance is that proposed by the German Anatomical Society at their meeting in Basel in 1895, and generally designated by the abbreviation BNA.

The only purpose of a name is that it shall furnish a key to a common understanding; where the BNA name does not furnish such a key to English readers, and where there is a term in established English usage that does serve this purpose and seems unlikely to be supplanted, we have used the latter.

But we have endeavored to make the number of these exceptions as small as possible, and in such cases we have usually cited at the same time the term proposed by the German society, followed by the abbreviation BNA.

When, on the other hand, we have adopted a BNA term for which there is also a commonly used English equivalent, the latter has likewise usually been cited in parenthesis.

Will the common English name _innominate_ bone (os innominatum) be replaced by the BNA term _os coxæ_ or _coxal bone_? We have held this to be highly improbable, and have therefore used the term _innominate bone_, merely citing _os coxæ_ (BNA) as a synonym.