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Meaning of UNCIFORM

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
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  1. \Un"ci*form\, a. [L. uncus a hook + -form.]
    Having the shape of a hook; being of a curved or hooked from;
    hooklike.
    
    {Unciform bone} (Anat.), a bone of the carpus at the bases of
       the fourth and fifth metacarpals; the hamatum.
    
    
  2. \Un"ci*form\, n. (Anat.)
    The unciform bone. See Illust. of {Perissodactyla}.
    
    
 

 

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