coronoid process

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n.

The triangular anterior process of the mandibular ramus, giving attachment to the temporal muscle.

A bracketlike projection from the anterior portion of the proximal extremity of the ulna, giving attachment to the brachial muscle and entering into formation of the trochlear notch.

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Words nearby coronoid process

coronitis, coronium, coronograph, coronoidectomy, coronoid fossa, coronoid process, coroplasty, Corot, corotate, corotomy, co-routine

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In the process, we get straightjacketed into emotionally distant, competitive lives.
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Or how much richer a few rich Mexicans are going to get in the process?
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Then we all have to do our part to engage the officers and our community, and hold everyone accountable in the process.
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“The process of getting the approval is too slow and is too cumbersome,” Rogers said.
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The process of co-opting black music and selling it back to the adoring public in whiteface is as American as apple pie.
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On certain of the stems the fertile cone appears and the spores are ripened about June, after which the process withers.
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By the second process, it is made to the advantage of the issuer of the notes to hasten their withdrawal himself.
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The quickening of one part of the process necessitated the "speeding up" of all the others.
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That, too, is a process which in this changing new world of ours can never be completed.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
A smile of beatitude spread over his enormous countenance during the process.
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