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from The Century Dictionary.
- Anchor-shaped; specifically, in anatomy, curved or bent like the fluke of an anchor: applied to the coracoid process of the shoulder-blade (see cut under
scapula ), and - to the cornua of the lateral ventricle of the brain. Also written
ankyroid .
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n. - joining together of bones or hard parts; resulting stiffness. ankylose, v.i. (of bones) to fuse or stiffen in this way. ankyroid, ancyroid adj. - having shape of hook.
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