Definition of Unciform. Meaning of Unciform. Synonyms of Unciform

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Definition of Unciform

Unciform
Unciform Un"ci*form, n. (Anat.) The unciform bone. See Illust. of Perissodactyla.
Unciform
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 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...
- flatter surface, as on the top of a mushroom or in the scale of a pine cone. unciform Hook-shaped. uncinate Having a hook at the apex. undershrub A low shrub...
- rhizines. However, it does not have soralia, it has short, hook-like (unciform) conidia that are shorter than those in P. tomentosula (5−6 μm), and it...
- unbell- uncia unci- twelfth inch, ounce, quincuncial, uncial uncus unc- hook unciform, Uncinaria, uncinate, Uncinia unda und- wave abound, abundance, abundant...
- universe, university unc- hook Latin uncus adunc, aduncity, aduncous, unciform, Uncinaria, uncinate, Uncinia unci- ounce, twelfth Latin uncia inch, ounce...
- universe, university unc- hook Latin uncus adunc, aduncity, aduncous, unciform, Uncinaria, uncinate, Uncinia unci- ounce, twelfth Latin uncia inch, ounce...
- cearensis, was dubbed in 1980 by Carlos de Paula Couto based on a partial unciform (wrist bone), though he mistook as the astragalus (tarsal bone) of a megalochynid...
- spiky tips, and measure 20.0–26.5 by 12.5–16.0 μm. The conidia have an unciform (hooklike) shape and are 4–7 by about 1 μm. The range of Punctelia riograndensis...
- 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...
- and range in colour from light brown to brownish-black. The conidia are unciform (hook-like), measuring 4–6 by 1 μm. The cortex contains atranorin and chloroatranorin...