Word Meanings - INTERSESAMOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Between sesamoid bones; as, intersesamoid ligaments.

Related words: (words related to INTERSESAMOID)

• SESAMOIDAL
  Sesamoid.
• INTERSESAMOID
  Between sesamoid bones; as, intersesamoid ligaments.
• BONESET
  A medicinal plant, the thoroughwort . Its properties are diaphoretic and tonic.
• SESAMOID
  Of or pertaining to the sesamoid bones or cartilages; sesamoidal. Sesamoid bones, Sesamoid cartilages , small bones or cartilages formed in tendons, like the patella and pisiform in man. (more info) 1. Resembling in shape the seeds of sesame.
• BETWEEN
  betweónum; prefix be- by + a form fr. AS. twa two, akin to Goth. 1. In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia. 2. Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of
• BONESETTER
  One who sets broken or dislocated bones; -- commonly applied to one, not a regular surgeon, who makes an occupation of setting bones. -- Bone"set*ting, n.
• BONESHAW
  Sciatica.
• WHETTLEBONES
  The vertebræ of the back. Dunglison.
• RACKABONES
  A very lean animal, esp. a horse.
• SAWBONES
  A nickname for a surgeon.
• NAPIER'S BONES; NAPIER'S RODS
  A set of rods, made of bone or other material, each divided into nine spaces, and containing the numbers of a column of the multiplication table; -- a contrivance of Baron Napier, the inventor of logarithms, for facilitating the operations
• LAZYBONES
  A lazy person.
• CROSSBONES
  A representation of two of the leg bones or arm bones of a skeleton, laid crosswise, often surmounted with a skull, and serving as a symbol of death. Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrios emblems of mortality. Hawthorne.
• GO-BETWEEN
  An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- usually in a disparaging sense. Shak.
• BLOODYBONES
  A terrible bugbear.