| 单词 | coracoid bone |
| 释义 | > as lemmascoracoid bone 1. Beaked like a crow. Applied to a process of bone ( coracoid process), extending from the scapula or shoulder blade toward the sternum or breastbone, which in adult man somewhat resembles in shape and size the beak of a crow; also to the bone ( coracoid bone) homologous with this process, which, in birds and reptiles, extends from the scapula to the sternum, and forms the distal or ventral element of the scapular arch. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > constituent materials > [adjective] > of bone between scapula and sternum coracoid1741 coracoidal1893 the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bony support for limbs > shoulder-girdle > [noun] > shoulder bone > coracoid process rostral bonea1400 rostral?a1425 rostrate bonec1475 coracoid process1741 coracoid1828 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Coracoides, a Process of the Shoulder-blade which takes Name from its Figure resembling that of a Crow's Bill. 1721 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. ] 1741 A. Monro Anat. Human Bones (ed. 3) 245 The Base, Acromion, coracoid Process and Head of the Scapula, are all in a cartilaginous State at the Birth. 1839–47 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. III. 840/1 The coracoid bone..is only fully developed in the Reptilia and in Birds. 1844 W. B. Carpenter Animal Physiol. xii. 468 Another process, the coracoid, which only serves in Man for the attachment of certain muscles. < as lemmas |
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