Sesamoid

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of or designating any of certain small modular bones or cartilages that develop in a tendon or in the capsule of a joint.
  • n. A sesamoid bone or cartilage.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Resembling a sesame seed in size or shape.
  • adj. Of or relating to a sesamoid bone.
  • n. A sesamoid bone or sesamoid cartilage.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Resembling in shape the seeds of sesame.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to the sesamoid bones or cartilages; sesamoidal.
  • n. A sesamoid bone or cartilage.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having the shape of a grain of sesame: especially applied in anatomy to small independent osseous or cartilaginous bodies occurring in tendinous structures.
  • n. In anatomy, a bone developed in the tendon of a muscle at or near a joint; a scleroskel-etal ossification, usually of a nodular shape.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. any of several small round bones formed in a tendon where it passes over a joint
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    Words that are more generic or abstract
    os    bone   
    Hyponym
    kneepan    patella    kneecap   
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    sesamoidal   
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    interphalangeal    neurovascular    mesial    well-gnawed    olecranon    5mb    aitch    innominate    trembly    sphenoid