Crossword-Solution: UNCIFORM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Unciform | a. | Having the shape of a hook; being of a curved or hooked from; hooklike. |
| Unciform | n. | The unciform bone. See Illust. of Perissodactyla. |
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| having the shape of a hook | 1 answer |
| Hook-like? | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with UNCIFORM (5)
Another circular sweep just above the pisiform and unciform bones divides all the soft textures, after which the joint may be opened, and, if necessary, the styloid processes cut away with saw or pliers.
The tubercle of the navicular (scaphoid) and the greater multangular (trapezium) can be felt between the radial styloid and the ball of the thumb, a little below the radial styloid; and the pisiform and hook of the hamatum (unciform) are palpable, slightly below and in front of the ulnar styloid.
Unciform bone (Anat.), a bone of the carpus at the bases of the fourth and fifth metacarpals; the hamatum.
Considered in the order we have indicated above--that is to say, proceeding from the radial to the ulnar side--they are thus named: scaphoid, semilunar, cuneiform, and pisiform, in the first row; trapezium, trapezoid, os magnum, and unciform, in the second.
The second row consists of a broad and flat magnum, supporting the great third metacarpal, having to its radial side the trapezoid, and to its ulnar side the unciform, which are both small, and articulate inferiorally with the rudimentary second and fourth metacarpals.