SESAMOID

a. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Resembling in shape the seeds of sesame.

2.
a.

Of or pertaining to the sesamoid bones or cartilages; sesamoidal. Sesamoid bones, Sesamoid cartilages (Anat.), small bones or cartilages formed in tendons, like the patella and pisiform in man.

3.
n.

A sesamoid bone or cartilage.

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