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scaphoid
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Navicular \Na*vic"u*lar\, a. [L. navicularius, fr. navicula, dim. of navis ship: cf. F. naviculaire.]
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a boat or ship.
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Shaped like a boat; cymbiform; scaphoid; as, the navicular glumes of most grasses; the navicular bone. Navicular bone. (Anat.)
One of the middle bones of the tarsus, corresponding to the centrale; -- called also scaphoid.
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A proximal bone on the radial side of the carpus; the scaphoid.
Navicular disease (Far.), a disease affecting the navicular bone, or the adjacent parts, in a horse's foot.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1741, from Modern Latin scaphoides "boat-shaped," from Greek skaphoeides, with -oeides (see -oid) + skaphe "light boat, skiff;" also "basin, trough, a bowl;" literally "thing dug or cut out," from PIE *skabh-, from root *(s)kep- "to cut" (see scabies). Related: Scaphoidal (1680s).\n
Wiktionary
a. Shaped like a boat, navicular. n. (context anatomy English) Carpal navicular bone.
WordNet
adj. shaped like a boat [syn: navicular]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "scaphoid".
Skin flap remained attached to scaphoid, which suggests injuries to right hand were pre-amputation .
The head of the astragalus is very prominent on the outer side, the scaphoid being depressed downward and inward away from it.
The scaphoid, in addition to its displacement, is much compressed on the planter surface, being little more than one-half the width of the dorsal surface.