Usually means: Largest bone in wrist center.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. capitate bone: Vocabulary.com
  2. capitate bone: Wiktionary
  3. capitate bone: Infoplease Dictionary
  4. capitate bone: Dictionary.com
  5. Capitate bone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. capitate bone: Rhymezone
  7. capitate bone: FreeDictionary.org
  8. capitate bone: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. capitate bone: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. capitate bone: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  5. Capitate bone: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  6. capitate bone: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (capitate bone)

▸ noun:  The largest of the bones in the human wrist.

Similar:
os capitatum, capitate, capitatum, wrist, metacarpus, carpus, scaphoid bone, hamatum, capitulum, metacarpal bone, more...

Opposite:
uncapitate, uncapitulate, decapitate

Types:
metacarpal, metatarsal, carpal, phalanges, more...

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Similar:
os capitatum, capitate, capitatum, wrist, metacarpus, carpus, scaphoid bone, hamatum, capitulum, metacarpal bone, more...

Opposite:
uncapitate, uncapitulate, decapitate

Types:
metacarpal, metatarsal, carpal, phalanges, more...



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