Coracoid

[kɒ:rәkɒid]

Definition

(a.) Shaped like a crow's beak.

(a.) Pertaining to a bone of the shoulder girdle in most birds, reptiles, and amphibians, which is reduced to a process of the scapula in most mammals.

(n.) The coracoid bone or process.

Typist: Shelley

Definition

adj. shaped like a crow's beak.—n. (anat.) an important paired bone in the breast-girdle forming along with the scapula the articulation for the fore-limb and always lying ventrally.

Typist: Sadie