Usually means: Small bone embedded within tendons.
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  1. sesamoid: Merriam-Webster
  2. sesamoid: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sesamoid: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sesamoid: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sesamoid: Vocabulary.com
  6. sesamoid: Wordnik
  7. Sesamoid: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  8. sesamoid: Wiktionary
  9. sesamoid: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sesamoid: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. sesamoid: Dictionary.com
  12. Sesamoid: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. sesamoid: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Sesamoid: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. sesamoid: FreeDictionary.org
  16. sesamoid: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. sesamoid: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. sesamoid: Encyclopedia

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  1. sesamoid: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. sesamoid: Medical dictionary

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  1. sesamoid: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sesamoid)

▸ adjective:  Resembling a sesame seed in size or shape.
▸ adjective:  Of or relating to a sesamoid bone.
▸ noun:  (anatomy) A sesamoid bone or sesamoid cartilage.

Similar:
sesamoidean, psammomatoid, samaroid, sepaloid, entomoid, setuliform, seminiform, tuboid, tuberiform, antheroid, more...

Opposite:
non-sesamoid, asesamoid

Types:
patella, pisiform, fibular sesamoid, tibial sesamoid, trapezium, lun, more...

Phrases:
sesamoid bones, sesamoid bone, distal sesamoid, sesamoid cartilages, more...

Adjectives:
medial, tibial, lateral, fibular, radial, bipartite, distal, proximal, fractured, small, large

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Similar:
sesamoidean, psammomatoid, samaroid, sepaloid, entomoid, setuliform, seminiform, tuboid, tuberiform, antheroid, more...

Opposite:
non-sesamoid, asesamoid

Types:
patella, pisiform, fibular sesamoid, tibial sesamoid, trapezium, lun, more...

Phrases:
sesamoid bones, sesamoid bone, distal sesamoid, sesamoid cartilages, more...

Adjectives:
medial, tibial, lateral, fibular, radial, bipartite, distal, proximal, fractured, small, large



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