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unciform


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Unciform  \Un"ci*form\,  n.  (Anat.) 
  The  unciform  bone.  See  Illust.  of  {Perissodactyla}. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Unciform  \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.