Category:Unciform

Un"ci*form, a. Etym: [l. uncus a hook + -form.]

Defn: 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.

Unciform Un"ci*form, n. (anat.)

Defn: the unciform bone. See illust. of perissodactyla.