Crossword-Solution: SESAMOID
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sesamoid | a. | Resembling in shape the seeds of sesame. |
| Sesamoid | a. | Of or pertaining to the sesamoid bones or cartilages; sesamoidal. |
| Sesamoid | n. | A sesamoid bone or cartilage. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “SESAMOID”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Bone shaped like a certain seed | 1 answer |
| Seed-shaped cartilage | 1 answer |
| BONE gliding over bony prominences | 3 answers |
| BONE of the human body | 41 answers |
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Form of quartz with coloured bands
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with SESAMOID (5)
NOTE.--The following Table of 206 bones is exclusive of the 8 sesamoid bones which occur in pairs at the roots of the thumb and great toe, making 214 as given by Leidy and Draper.
The inhibitory apparatus of the fetlock joint is materially reinforced by the proximal sesamoid bones.
Situated as they are, between the bifurcating portions of the suspensory ligament and the posterior part of the distal end of the metacarpus--with which they articulate--the sesamoid bones serve to change the course of the branches of the suspensory ligament in a manner that they give firm support to this joint.
Etiology and Occurrence.--Inflammation of the proximal sesamoid bones is caused by any kind of irritation which may involve this part of the inhibitory apparatus.
The flexor tendons also, in contracting, exert strain upon the inter-sesamoidean ligament, which has a similar effect upon the sesamoid bones as that which is produced by the suspensory ligament.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1972–1983).