NAVICULAR

a. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a boat or ship.

2.
a.

Shaped like a boat; cymbiform; scaphoid; as, the navicular glumes of most grasses; the navicular bone. Navicular bone. (Anat.) (a) One of the middle bones of the tarsus, corresponding to the centrale; -- called also scaphoid. (b) A proximal bone on the radial side of the carpus; the scaphoid. -- Navicular disease (Far.), a disease affecting the navicular bone, or the adjacent parts, in a horse's foot.

3.
n.

The navicular bone.


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