coracoid

American  

[kawr-uh-koid, kor-] / ˈkɔr əˌkɔɪd, ˈkɒr- /

adjective

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.

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noun

1. a coracoid bone or process.

coracoid British  

/ ˈkɒrəˌkɔɪd /

noun

1. a paired ventral bone of the pectoral girdle in vertebrates. In mammals it is reduced to a peg (the coracoid process ) on the scapula

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Other Word Forms

• intercoracoid
  adjective
• precoracoid
  adjective
• subcoracoid
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of coracoid

1700–10; < New Latin coracoīdēs < Greek korakoeidḗs ravenlike, hooked like a raven's beak, equivalent to korak- (stem of kórax ) raven + -oeidēs -oid

Example Sentences

He was cut in March of 2016 before signing with the Browns later that month, but he played just five games after suffering a fractured coracoid bone in his left shoulder.

From Washington Post • May 24, 2018

In the first game of the season, Griffin fractured his coracoid bone in his shoulder, and he hasn’t played since.

From Washington Times • Nov. 29, 2016

Impingement syndrome occurs when the rotator cuff tendons become "impinged" between boney anatomical structures of the shoulder, i.e. the coracoid as well as the acromion.

From US News • May 11, 2016

The coracoid process projects anteriorly, passing inferior to the lateral end of the clavicle.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Shoulder Girdle.—Scapula, coracoid and clavicle, meet to form the foramen triosseum, through which passes the tendon of the supracoracoideus, or subclavius muscle to the tuberculum superius of the humerus.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various