Word Meanings - EPICORACOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A ventral cartilaginous or bony element of the coracoid in the shoulder girdle of some vertebrates.

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• SHOULDER
  The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint. 2. The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the
• SHOULDER-SHOTTEN
  Sprained in the shoulder, as a horse. Shak.
• ELEMENTAL
  1. Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air. "Elemental strife." Pope. 2. Pertaining to rudiments or first principles; rudimentary; elementary.
• ELEMENT
  1. One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based. 2. One of the ultimate, undecomposable constituents of any kind of matter. Specifically:
• SHOULDERED
  Having shoulders; -- used in composition; as, a broad- shouldered man. "He was short-shouldered." Chaucer.
• ELEMENTALITY
  The condition of being composed of elements, or a thing so composed.
• ELEMENTALISM
  The theory that the heathen divinities originated in the personification of elemental powers.
• GIRDLESTEAD
  1. That part of the body where the girdle is worn. Sheathed, beneath his girdlestead. Chapman. 2. The lap. There fell a flower into her girdlestead. Swinburne.
• ELEMENTATION
  Instruction in the elements or first principles.
• ELEMENTOID
  Resembling an element.
• GIRDLER
  An American longicorn beetle which lays its eggs in the twigs of the hickory, and then girdles each branch by gnawing a groove around it, thus killing it to provide suitable food for the larvæ. (more info) 1. One who girdles. 2. A
• ELEMENTAR
  Elementary. Skelton.
• VENTRAL
  Of, pertaining to, or situated near, the belly, or ventral side, of an animal or of one of its parts; hemal; abdominal; as, the ventral fin of a fish; the ventral root of a spinal nerve; -- opposed to Ant: dorsal. Of or pertaining to that surface
• ELEMENTARINESS
  The state of being elementary; original simplicity; uncompounded state.
• CARTILAGINOUS
  Having the skeleton in the state of cartilage, the bones containing little or no calcareous matter; said of certain fishes, as the sturgeon and the sharks. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to cartilage; gristly; firm and tough like cartilage.
• GIRDLE
  A griddle.
• CORACOID
  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. (more info) 1. Shaped like a crow's beak.
• ELEMENTARITY
  Elementariness. Sir T. Browne.
• ELEMENTARY
  1. Having only one principle or constituent part; consisting of a single element; simple; uncompounded; as, an elementary substance. 2. Pertaining to, or treating of, the elements, rudiments, or first principles of anything; initial; rudimental;
• ELEMENTALLY
  According to elements; literally; as, the words, "Take, eat; this is my body," elementally understood.
• HUMP-SHOULDERED
  Having high, hunched shoulders. Hawthorne.
• DORSIVENTRAL
  Having distinct upper and lower surfaces, as most common leaves. The leaves of the iris are not dorsiventral.
• INTERCARTILAGINOUS
  Within cartilage; endochondral; as, intercartilaginous ossification.
• DORSOVENTRAL
  From the dorsal to the ventral side of an animal; as, the dorsoventral axis.
• SEA GIRDLES
  A kind of kelp with palmately cleft fronds; -- called also sea wand, seaware, and tangle.
• ENGIRDLE
  To surround as with a girdle; to girdle.
• TRANSELEMENT; TRANSELEMENTATE
  To change or transpose the elements of; to transubstantiate. Jer. Taylor.
• EPICORACOID
  A ventral cartilaginous or bony element of the coracoid in the shoulder girdle of some vertebrates.
• BIVENTRAL
  Having two bellies or protuberances; as, a biventral, or digastric, muscle, or the biventral lobe of the cerebellum.
• PRECORACOID
  The anterior part of the coracoid (often closely united with the clavicle) in the shoulder girdle of many reptiles and amphibians.