What does unciform mean?

Definitions for unciform
ˈʌn səˌfɔrmun·ci·form

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Wiktionary

  1. unciformnoun

    The hamate bone.

  2. unciformadjective

    Of the shape of a hook.

  3. Etymology: uncinus + -form

Wikipedia

  1. unciform

    The hamate bone (from Latin hamatus, "hooked"), or unciform bone (from Latin uncus, "hook"), Latin os hamatum and occasionally abbreviated as just hamatum, is a bone in the human wrist readily distinguishable by its wedge shape and a hook-like process ("hamulus") projecting from its palmar surface.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Unciformadjective

    having the shape of a hook; being of a curved or hooked from; hooklike

  2. Unciformnoun

    the unciform bone. See Illust. of Perissodactyla

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Unciform

    un′si-form, adj. hook-shaped.—adjs. Uncif′erous, having a hook, as an ovipositor; Un′cinal, Un′cinate, hooked at the end.—n.pl. Uncinā′ta, a division of marine chætopod worms—serpulas and other tubicolous worms.—ns. Uncinā′tum, the unciform bone of the carpus; Uncī′nus, a hooklet, hamulus, one of the uncial teeth of the radula:—pl. Uncī′ni (ī).—adj. Unciros′trāte, having a hooked beak. [L. uncus, a hook.]

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  1. cuniform

  2. nuciform

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of unciform in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of unciform in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

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