Unciform Definition

ŭnsə-fôrm

adjective

Uncinate.

American Heritage

Hook-shaped.

Webster's New World

Designating or of a hook-shaped bone in the distal row of the wrist, on the same side as the ulna.

Webster's New World

Designating a hooked process on the unciform bone, or a similar process on the ethmoid bone.

Webster's New World

Uncinate.

American Heritage Medicine

noun

An unciform bone.

Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Unciform

Singular:

unciform

Plural:

unciforms

From Latin uncus (“hook") + +"Ž -form.

From Wiktionary
Latin uncus hook –form

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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