Crossword-Solution: PISIFORM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pisiform | a. | Resembling a pea or peas in size and shape; as, a pisiform iron ore. |
| Pisiform | n. | A small bone on the ulnar side of the carpus in man and many mammals. See Illust. of Artiodactyla. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “PISIFORM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BONE of upper row of carpus, small | 1 answer |
| CARPUS, small bone of the upper row of | 1 answer |
| Resembling peas in size and shape. | 1 answer |
| SMALL bone of upper row of | 1 answer |
| HAND-wrist bone | 10 answers |
| WRIST-hand bone | 10 answers |
| HAND and wrist, bone of the | 12 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.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PISIFORM (5)
Disarticulation is facilitated by the surgeon forcibly bending the wrist when he makes the transverse cut, and it will be found easier to shape the palmar flap from the outside by dissection, than to do it by transfixion after disarticulation, on account of the prominence of the pisiform on the inner side of the palm.
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 trapezium is then to be seized by forceps and carefully dissected out, the metacarpal bone of the thumb pared like the others, the articular surface of the pisiform removed, the rest of the bone being left if it is sound.
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.
Sesamoid bones, Sesamoid cartilages (Anat.), small bones or cartilages formed in tendons, like the patella and pisiform in man.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1961).