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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Situated between the hypercoracoid and the hypocoracoid.
  • noun An element in the shoulder-girdle of teleost fishes, disintegrated from the coracoid or paraglenal cartilage, and intermediate between or bridging over the hypercoracoid and hypocoracoid. It is developed in the malacopterygian and plectospondylous fishes, but is lost in the acanthopterygians.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Anat.) A process from the middle of the coracoid in some animals.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun anatomy A process from the middle of the coracoid in some animals.

Etymologies

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meso- +‎ coracoid

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