coracoid

coracoid
/kawr"euh koyd', kor"-/, Anat., Zool.
adj.
1. pertaining to the bone that in reptiles, birds, and monotremes articulates with the scapula and the sternum and that in humans and other higher mammals is a reduced bony process of the scapula having no connection with the sternum.
n.
2. a coracoid bone or process.
[1700-10; < NL coracoides < Gk korakoeidés ravenlike, hooked like a raven's beak, equiv. to korak- (s. of kórax) raven + -oeides -OID]

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