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UNCUS

\ʌnkˈʌs], \ʌnkˈʌs], \ʌ_n_k_ˈʌ_s]\

Definitions of UNCUS

2006 - WordNet 3.0
2011 - English Dictionary Database
1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
1898 - American pocket medical dictionary

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(biology) any hook-shaped process or part

2006 - WordNet 3.0
By Princeton University

(biology) any hook-shaped process or part

2011 - English Dictionary Database
By DataStellar Co., Ltd

Any hook-shaped process or structure; specifically, the hooked extremity of the hippocampal convolution.

1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop

The hook-shaped anterior extremity of the hippocampal gyrus; the hooked head of the mastax of Rotifers; the hook-like process on the dorsal portion of the ninth, or copulatory, abdominal segment of male Lepidoptera.

1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.

A hook or hook-shaped structure.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

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