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Definition: Unciform
Unciform
\Un"ci*form\, a. [L. uncus a hook + -form.]
Having the shape of a hook; being of a curved or hooked from;
hooklike.
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Unciform bone (Anat.), a bone of the carpus at the bases of
the fourth and fifth metacarpals; the hamatum.
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Unciform
\Un"ci*form\, n. (Anat.)
The unciform bone. See Illust. of
Perissodactyla.
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