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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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
MCEZAE
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eruption
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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).