CORACOID
\kˈɒɹɐkˌɔ͡ɪd], \kˈɒɹɐkˌɔɪd], \k_ˈɒ_ɹ_ɐ_k_ˌɔɪ_d]\
Definitions of CORACOID
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Resembling a crow's beak; in anat., applied to a process of the shoulder-blade, which attains a large size in birds and reptiles.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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Resembling the beak of a crow. A name given by Galen- and still retained- to the short, thick process, situate at the anterior part of the upper margin of the scapula, which has some resemblance to the beak of a crow. This process gives attachment to the Coraco-clavicular and Coraco-acromial ligaments, and to the Coraco-brachialis, Pectoralis minor,and Biceps muscles.
By Robley Dunglison
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