Usually means: Hook-shaped; resembling a hook.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. unciform: Merriam-Webster
  2. unciform: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. unciform: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. unciform: Collins English Dictionary
  5. unciform: Wordnik
  6. unciform: Wiktionary
  7. unciform: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. unciform: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. unciform: Dictionary.com
  10. Unciform: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Unciform: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. unciform: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Unciform: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. unciform: FreeDictionary.org
  15. unciform: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  16. unciform: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. unciform: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  5. unciform: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (unciform)

▸ adjective:  Of the shape of a hook; hook-shaped.
▸ noun:  The hamate bone.

Similar:
uncinate, aduncous, hookeared, aciform, uncinal, corniform, nodiform, uncincate, aduncate, hengiform, more...

Opposite:
straight, even, symmetrical, uncurved

Types:
spiral, helix, coil, twist, curve, bend, arc, more...

Phrases:
unciform bone, more...

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Similar:
uncinate, aduncous, hookeared, aciform, uncinal, corniform, nodiform, uncincate, aduncate, hengiform, more...

Opposite:
straight, even, symmetrical, uncurved

Types:
spiral, helix, coil, twist, curve, bend, arc, more...

Phrases:
unciform bone, more...



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