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Coracoid   Listen
noun
Coracoid  n.  The coracoid bone or process.






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"Coracoid" Quotes from Famous Books



... the shoulder-blade (scapula, sc.) a flattened bone with a median external ridge with a hook-like termination, the acromion (acr.). There is also a process overhanging the glenoid cavity (g.) wherein the humerus articulates, which process is called coracoid (co.); it is ossified from two separate centres, and represents a very considerable bone in the bird, reptile, and frog. Along the dorsal edge of the scapula of the rabbit is unossified cartilage, which is called the supra-scapula (s.sc.). ...
— Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata • H. G. Wells



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