Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The outermost bone in the second vow of carpals, commonly called
unciform (which see).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) See
unciform .
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- noun anatomy The
hamate bone .
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Examples
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The Hamate Bone (os hamatum; unciform bone) (Fig. 228).
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(trapezium) can be felt between the radial styloid and the ball of the thumb, a little below the radial styloid; and the pisiform and hook of the hamatum (unciform) are palpable, slightly below and in front of the ulnar styloid.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
mollusque commented on the word hamatum
A bone in the foot of some mammals; also called the unciform.
December 15, 2007