Category:Navicular

Na*vic"u*lar, a. Etym: [l. navicularius, fr. navicula, dim. of navis Ship: cf. F. naviculaire.]

1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a boat or ship.

2. Shaped like a boat; cymbiform; scaphoid; as, the navicular glumes of most grasses; the navicular bone. Navicular bone. (anat.) (a) one of the middle bones of the tarsus, corresponding to the centrale; -- Called also scaphoid. (b) a proximal bone on the radial side of the carpus; the scaphoid. -- navicular disease (far.), a disease affecting the navicular bone, or the adjacent parts, in a horse's foot.

Navicular Na*vic"u*lar, n. (anat.)

Defn: the navicular bone.