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unciform, a. and n. Anat.|ˈʌnsɪfɔːm|
[ad. mod.L. unciform-is, f. L. unc-us hook. So F. and Sp. unciforme.]
A. adj. Hook-shaped; esp. unciform bone, unciform process.
(a)1733–4G. Douglas tr. Winslow's Anat. Expos. (1756) 84 In the fourth Bone..we are to consider the..hooked or Unciform Apophysis. 1831R. Knox Cloquet's Anat. 105 The inferior turbinated bone..which..seems suspended by its unciform process. 1855Holden Hum. Osteol. 74 The unciform process..is connected..with the inferior spongy bone and the superior maxillary bone.
(b)1840E. Wilson Anat. Vade M. 198 The Flexor ossis metacarpi..arises from the unciform bone and annular ligament. 1861Hulme tr. Moquin-Tandon i. ii. 4 The carpus has 8 bones arranged in two rows... In the second..is the trapezium, the trapezoid, the os magnum, and the unciform bone. 1884Coues N. Amer. Birds 107 A carpal bone, supposed to be unciform, later fusing with metacarpus.
B. n. The unciform bone of the wrist.
Also used in the L. form unciforme (sc. os).
1840G. V. Ellis Anat. 439 One is placed on each side of the os magnum, uniting this bone to the trapezoides on the one hand, and to the unciform on the other. |