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UNCIFORM PROCESS

\ʌnsˈɪfɔːm pɹˈə͡ʊsɛs], \ʌnsˈɪfɔːm pɹˈə‍ʊsɛs], \ʌ_n_s_ˈɪ_f_ɔː_m p_ɹ_ˈəʊ_s_ɛ_s]\

Definitions of UNCIFORM PROCESS

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary

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a process of the ethmoid bone.
hooked projection from the ethmoid, and one from unciform bone; also, hook at anterior end of the gyrus of the hippocampus.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

A long thin lamina of bone which descends from the orbital plate of the ethmoid to articulate with the inferior turbinated.
A flat hooklike p. on the palmar surface of the unciform bone.

1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
By Smith Ely Jelliffe

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