coracoid bone

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• Coracoid — Cor a*coid, n. The coracoid bone or process. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• coracoid process — n a process of the scapula in most mammals representing the remnant of the coracoid bone of lower vertebrates that has become fused with the scapula and in humans is situated on its superior border and serves for the attachment of various muscles …   Medical dictionary

• Coracoid — A coracoid is a paired bone which is part of the shoulder assembly in all vertebrates except therian mammals (therians = marsupials and placentals). In therian mammals (including humans), a coracoid process is present as part of the scapula, but… …   Wikipedia

• coracoid — Shaped like a crow s beak; denoting a process of the scapula. [G. korakodes, like a crow s beak, fr. korax, raven, + eidos, appearance] * * * cor·a·coid kȯr ə .kȯid, kär adj of, relating to, or being a process of the scapula in most mammals or… …   Medical dictionary

• coracoid — /kawr euh koyd , kor /, Anat., Zool. adj. 1. pertaining to the bone that in reptiles, birds, and monotremes articulates with the scapula and the sternum and that in humans and other higher mammals is a reduced bony process of the scapula having… …   Universalium

• coracoid — /ˈkɒrəkɔɪd/ (say koruhkoyd) adjective 1. relating to a bony process extending from the scapula towards the sternum in many vertebrates. –noun 2. a coracoid bone. {Greek korakoeidēs raven like} …  

• coracoid process — noun : the rudimentary coracoid bone of most mammals ankylosed with and forming a process of the scapula and in man extending upward and inward from the scapula and then curving forward and finally outward …   Useful english dictionary

• Coracoid process — Bone: coracoid process Left scapula. Lateral view. (Coracoid process labeled at upper left.) …   Wikipedia

• coracoid — [kôr′ə koid΄] adj. [ModL coracoides < Gr korakoeidēs, like a raven < korax,RAVEN1 + eidos, OID] designating or of a rudimentary bony process on the shoulder blade in mammals, or a bone in monotremes and certain fossil reptiles that extends… …   English World dictionary

• Coracoid — Cor a*coid, a. [Gr. ?; ko rax crow + e i^dos form.] 1. Shaped like a crow s beak. [1913 Webster] 2. (Anat.) 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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Bone — This article is about the skeletal organ. For other uses, see Bone (disambiguation) and Bones (disambiguation). For the tissue, see Osseous tissue. Drawing of a human femur Bones are rigid organs that constitute part of the endoskeleton of… …   Wikipedia