Unciform

unciform

Having the shape of a hook; being of a curved or hooked from; hooklike.

(Science: anatomy) Unciform bone, a bone of the carpus at the bases of the fourth and fifth metacarpals; the hamatum.

Origin: L. Uncus a hook.

(Science: anatomy) The unciform bone.

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