Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Bent at the end like a hook; unciform.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An uncinate process (processus uncinatus), such as is found on the ribs of birds and crocodiles.
- Hooked or crooked; hooked at the end; forming a hook; unciform. Also uncate.
- The anterior extremity of the hippocampal gyrus. See cuts under cerebral, gyrus, and sulcus.
- n. An uncinate sponge-spicule.
Wiktionary
- adj. botany Hooked at the end.
- adj. anatomy hooked in appearance.
GNU Webster's 1913
Etymologies
- From Latin uncīnātus, from uncīnus ("hook, barb"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin uncīnātus, from uncīnus, barb, from uncus, hook. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The angle of junction of the lower and left lateral borders forms a prolongation, termed the uncinate process.”
“Her study focused on a bundle of fibers known as the uncinate fasciculus, which connects an emotion-processing area known as the amygdala, at the bottom of the brain, with a regulatory area known as the orbital prefrontal cortex, at the front of the brain.”
“Lower arrows point to complete removal of the left and right uncinate processes of the third cervical vertebrae suggestive of complete severance of the spinal column leading to full decapitation (HK43 Burial 350).”
“Microraptor/Cryptovolans has an uncinate process on its ribs which is present in all modern birds, but missing in Archaeopteryx as far as I know.”
New Archaeopteryx fossil provides further insight into bird, dinosaur evolution - The Panda's Thumb
“They are serially homologous with, for example, the uncinate processes of the ribs in birds (see Figs. 5 and 6).”
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
“Behind this process a broad, thin plate, the ethmoidal process, ascends to join the uncinate process of the ethmoid; from its lower border a thin lamina, the maxillary process, curves downward and lateralward; it articulates with the maxilla and forms a part of the medial wall of the maxillary sinus.”
“In the articulated skull this aperture is much reduced in size by the following bones: the uncinate process of the ethmoid above, the ethmoidal process of the inferior nasal concha below, the vertical part of the palatine behind, and a small part of the lacrimal above and in front (Figs. 158, 159); the sinus communicates with the middle meatus of the nose, generally by two small apertures left between the above-mentioned bones.”
“A curved lamina, the uncinate process, projects downward and backward from this part of the labyrinth; it forms a small part of the medial wall of the maxillary sinus, and articulates with the ethmoidal process of the inferior nasal concha.”
“The hiatus semilunaris is bounded inferiorly by the sharp concave margin of the uncinate process of the ethmoid bone, and leads into a curved channel, the infundibulum, bounded above by the bulla ethmoidalis and below by the lateral surface of the uncinate process of the ethmoid.”
X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1b. The Organ of Smell
“Below the bulla ethmoidalis, and partly hidden by the inferior end of the uncinate process, is the ostium maxillare, or opening from the maxillary sinus; in a frontal section this opening is seen to be placed near the roof of the sinus.”
X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1b. The Organ of Smell
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘uncinate’.
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Mycology
basidiomycete, initiation, fungus, shiitake, inoculum, substrate, fruit body, mycelium, hyphal growth, oyster, spawn run, polypore and 207 more...
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Sponge Spicule Terminology
A list of the richly esoteric and myriad terms that have been used in the classification and study of fossil and modern sponge spicules.
The morphology of sponge spicule elements paral...monaxon, monaxonial, monaxial, monactine, monactinal, monactinal monaxon, diactinal monaxon, diactine, biradiate, rhabdus, oxea, uniaxial and 186 more...
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Here's a tip for you.
tip, tips, Tip, tipping, tip jar, tip-cat, tip-cheese, Tippi Hedren, tipi, Tipperary, tipsy, Tip O'Neill and 75 more...
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Hooks
hook, Captain Hook, shook, grappling hook, meat hook, pruning hook, hooks, hook 'em horns, Hook 'em Horns, sky-hook, hook, line, and s..., hook, line and si... and 66 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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A few of my favorite definitions from...
I'm especially fond of ones written by Charles Sanders Peirce.
theodolite, illusion, buckie, frank, abstract-concrete, semidiagrammatic, object-object, vortex-filament, dod, parrock, cobler, weather-box and 354 more...
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around bend words
IE roots ank-, ant- and others
angle, ankle, ankylosaur, england, anchor, ancon, elbow, ankylosis, ancylostomiasis, hook, uncinate, uncus and 66 more...
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Old Words, Inkhorn Terms
lickerish, truckle, dogsbody, gambrinous, collywobbles, megrim, jentacular, fatigate, furibund, oblatrant, turgidous, ustulation and 24 more...
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Hooked (structurally)
Words meaning structurally hooked.
adunc, uncinate, aduncate, aduncous, adunque, uncous, hamose, hamous, aquiline, hamate
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hernesheir uncinal, unciform Dec 27, 2010