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单词 hamulus
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hamulusn.

/ˈhamjuːləs/
Forms: Plural hamuli /-aɪ/.
Etymology: < Latin hāmulus, diminutive of hāmus a hook.
a. Anatomy, Zoology, and Botany. A small hook or hook-like process, as in certain bones, in feathers, etc.; in Botany a hooked bristle.
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1855 L. Holden Human Osteol. The external or orbital surface has a vertical ridge upon it which terminates below in a small lancet-like process or tongue, termed hamulus.
1886 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Hamulus..The hook-like portion of the pterygoid process of the sphenoid bone. Also, a term for the unciform bone.
b. Obstetrics. A hook-shaped instrument for extracting the fœtus.
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1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Hamus, or Hamulus, is an Hook... Surgeons also make Use of an Instrument thus called, to extract the Child in difficult Labours.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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