Usually means: Small, pea-shaped carpal bone.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word pisiform:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. pisiform: Merriam-Webster
  2. pisiform: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pisiform: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pisiform: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pisiform: Vocabulary.com
  6. pisiform: Wordnik
  7. pisiform: Wiktionary
  8. pisiform: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. pisiform: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. pisiform: Dictionary.com
  11. Pisiform: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Pisiform: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. pisiform: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. pisiform: Rhymezone
  15. Pisiform: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. pisiform: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. pisiform: FreeDictionary.org
  18. pisiform: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. pisiform: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. pisiform: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

(Note: See pisiforms as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pisiform)

▸ adjective:  Resembling a pea or peas in size and shape
▸ noun:  A small bone in the wrist at the junction of the ulna and the carpus

Similar:
pisiform bone, os pisiforme, phacoid, amphipodiform, calculiform, patelliform, spinuliform, flounderlike, squamoid, squamuliform, more...

Opposite:
ulnar, radial, carpal

Phrases:
pisiform bone, pisiform bones, more...

Adjectives:
lunate, right, left, hamate, small, prominent, movable, large, ulna, medial

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Similar:
pisiform bone, os pisiforme, phacoid, amphipodiform, calculiform, patelliform, spinuliform, flounderlike, squamoid, squamuliform, more...

Opposite:
ulnar, radial, carpal

Phrases:
pisiform bone, pisiform bones, more...

Adjectives:
lunate, right, left, hamate, small, prominent, movable, large, ulna, medial



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