UNCIFORM

a. n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Having the shape of a hook; being of a curved or hooked from; hooklike. Unciform bone (Anat.), a bone of the carpus at the bases of the fourth and fifth metacarpals; the hamatum.

2.
n.

The unciform bone. See Illust. of Perissodactyla.

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