unciform bone : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: unciform bone	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for unciform bone
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
unciform bone n the wrist bone in line with the 4th and 5th fingers [syn: hamate, hamate bone, unciform bone, os hamatum]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.