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Webster 1913 Edition
Unciform
Un′ci-form
(ŭn′sĭ-fôrm)
, Adj.
[L.
uncus
a hook + -form
.] Having the shape of a hook; being of a curved or hooked form; hooklike.
Unciform bone
(Anat.)
, a bone of the carpus at the bases of the fourth and fifth metacarpals; the hamatum.
Definition 2024
unciform
unciform
English
Adjective
unciform (comparative more unciform, superlative most unciform)
- Of the shape of a hook; hook-shaped.
Translations
of the shape of a hook
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Noun
unciform (plural unciforms)
- The hamate bone.
Translations
hamate bone — see hamate bone