Coracoid

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A bony process projecting from the scapula toward the sternum in mammals.
  • n. A beak-shaped bone articulating with the scapula and sternum in most lower vertebrates, such as birds and reptiles.
  • adj. Of, relating to, or resembling a coracoid.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Part of the scapula that projects towards the sternum in mammals; the coracoid process
  • n. A small bone linking the scapula and sternum in birds, reptiles and some other vertebrates
  • adj. Of, pertaining to or resembling such a process or bone.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Shaped like a crow's beak.
  • adj. Pertaining to a bone of the shoulder girdle in most birds, reptiles, and amphibians, which is reduced to a process of the scapula in most mammals.
  • n. The coracoid bone or process.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Shaped like a crow's beak.
  • Pertaining to the coracoid; connected with the coracoid, as, the coracoid ligament.
  • n. The distal or ventral element of the scapular arch, extending from the scapula to or toward the sternum, of whatever size, shape, or position: so named from the fact that in adult man it somewhat resembles the beak of a crow in size and shape. See cut under scapula.
  • n. In ichthyology, a large bone of the shoulder-girdle; the clavicle; not homologous with the coracoid of Agassiz or of Parker, or the coracoideum of Vogt and Yung.
  • Word Usage
    "There is also a process overhanging the glenoid cavity (g.) wherein the humerus articulates, which process is called coracoid (co.); it is ossified from two separate centres, and represents"
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