Dictionary entry

Unciform

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Un″ci‐form (ŭn″sĭ‐fôrm), a. [L. uncus a hook + -form.] Having the shape of a hook; being of a curved or hooked form; hooklike.

Unciform bone(Anat.), a bone of the carpus at the bases of the fourth and fifth metacarpals; the hamatum.