English Dictionary: unciform | by the DICT Development Group |
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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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Unciform \Un"ci*form\, n. (Anat.) The unciform bone. See Illust. of {Perissodactyla}. |