Anatomy and Zoology. A navicular bone.

Anatomy. Designating or relating to a boat-shaped bone in the ankle lying between the talus (astragalus) and the cuneiform bones, or (less…

any one of the small bones of the wrist; a carpal bone.

The part of the skeleton which unites the hand to the fore-arm, consisting in the higher vertebrates of eight small bones, in birds of two. In…

Shaped like a boat. scaphoid bone = B. scaphoid fossa: the fossa of the helix of the ear. scaphoid tubercle: the short process of the malleus.

a small globular bone of the proximal row of the carpus (sometimes considered to be a sesamoid bone in the tendon of insertion of the flexor carpi…

Anatomy. The pisiform bone.

Anatomy. A bone of the wrist, the second of the distal row of the carpus: so called from its shape. (Also in Latin-Greek form trapezoides; French…

Anatomy. A bone of the wrist, articulating with the metacarpal bone of the thumb (so called from its shape); also, the corresponding bone in the…

The unciform bone of the wrist.

The first proximal carpal bone in Mammalia, or the corresponding bone in the foot. See navicular, adj. 1.

n. plural = Carpal bones.

A bone of the wrist, shaped like a half-moon. Also in Latin form lunare/l(j)uːˈnɛəriː/.

= os centrale, n.

The carpal bone which lies on the radial side at the base of the carpus in the tetrapod forelimb (in humans and other mammals called the scaphoid).

Comparative Anatomy. [sc. os.] A bone of the carpus, situated between the ulnare and radiale (hence also called os centrale), or the corresponding…

Crescent-shaped, lunate, n. lunar bone (= medical Latin os lunare): = B. 3. Also, marked with crescent-shaped spots, as lunar underwing.

Anatomy. = capitate bone n. at compounds.

= triquetrous, adj.