Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the component bones of the jaw in birds and reptiles, lying on the inner face of the dentary and back of the splenial.
- Resembling the beak of a crow: specifically, in anatomy, applied to certain parts of bones.
- Of the ulna, that process which gives insertion to the brachialis anticus muscle, and takes part in forming the articular head of the bone. See cut under
forearm .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Resembling the beak of a crow.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective anatomy Shaped like the
beak of a crow
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Examples
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Moving back to the morphology of the rorqual lower jaw, a tall, well-developed coronoid process – way larger than that of any other mysticete – projects from each jaw bone and forms the attachment site for a tendinous part of the temporalis muscle, termed the frontomandibular stay.
Archive 2006-10-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Moving back to the morphology of the rorqual lower jaw, a tall, well-developed coronoid process – way larger than that of any other mysticete – projects from each jaw bone and forms the attachment site for a tendinous part of the temporalis muscle, termed the frontomandibular stay.
From cigar to elongated, bloated tadpole: rorquals part II Darren Naish 2006
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In certain cases the process of the ulna (olecranon?) behind the humerus is broken; sometimes its cartilaginous part, which gives origin to the posterior tendon of the arm, and sometimes its fore part, at the base of the anterior coronoid process; and when this displacement takes place, it is apt to be attended with malignant fever.
On Fractures 2007
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Dislocation is particularly recognized by these symptoms: the lower jaw protrudes forward, there is displacement to the opposite side, the coronoid process appears more prominent than natural on the upper jaw, and the patient cannot shut his lower jaw but with difficulty.
On The Articulations 2007
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From a "carnivorous" alimentary canal, then, you can infer with certainty that the animal possessed carnassial teeth and the other structural peculiarities of carnivorous animals, _e. g._, the peculiar coronoid process of the mandible.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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Like a crow's beak; thus the _coronoid_ process of the ulna.
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell
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The anterior border runs from the front of the greater tubercle above to the coronoid fossa below, separating the antero-medial from the antero-lateral surface.
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The zygomatic arch is formed by the zygomatic process of the temporal and the temporal process of the zygomatic, the two being united by an oblique suture; the tendon of the Temporalis passes medial to the arch to gain insertion into the coronoid process of the mandible.
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The deep portion is much smaller, and more muscular in texture; it arises from the posterior third of the lower border and from the whole of the medial surface of the zygomatic arch; its fibers pass downward and forward, to be inserted into the upper half of the ramus and the lateral surface of the coronoid process of the mandible.
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Above the front part of the trochlea is a small depression, the coronoid fossa, which receives the coronoid process of the ulna during flexion of the forearm.
hernesheir commented on the word coronoid
Resembling the beak of a crow, as in certain bones.
August 1, 2010