Definition of Unciform bone. Meaning of Unciform bone. Synonyms of Unciform bone

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Definition of Unciform bone

Unciform bone
Unciform Un"ci*form, a. [L. uncus a hook + -form.] Having the shape of a hook; being of a curved or hooked from; hooklike. Unciform bone (Anat.), a bone of the carpus at the bases of the fourth and fifth metacarpals; the hamatum.

Meaning of Unciform bone from wikipedia

- The hamate bone (from Latin hamatus, "hooked"), or unciform bone (from Latin uncus, "hook"), Latin os hamatum and occasionally abbreviated as just hamatum...
- dorsocaudally straight morphology that is proper of Aurornis, and has a narrow and unciform process. Serikornis is further distinguished by having very large anterior...
- Carlos de Paula Couto based on a partial unciform (wrist bone), though he mistook as the astragalus (tarsal bone) of a megalochynid, that had been found...
- universe, university unc- hook Latin uncus adunc, aduncity, aduncous, unciform, Uncinaria, uncinate, Uncinia unci- ounce, twelfth Latin uncia inch, ounce...
- This leaves no room for the fifth metacarpals' articulation with the unciform. As the indistinct ventral crest on the ventral aspect of the head doesn't...
- unbell- uncia unci- twelfth inch, ounce, quincuncial, uncial uncus unc- hook unciform, Uncinaria, uncinate, Uncinia unda und- wave abound, abundance, abundant...
- ulna also had a large olecranon. Likewise, two bones of the wrist have been identified, the right unciform and the left great, both being elements short...