precoracoid
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a word derived from
coracoid.
coracoidadjectivepertaining 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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Pre-, prē, before, in compound words like preanal, preauditory, preaxial, prebasal, prebrachial, precardiac, precentral, precerebral, precloacal, precordial, precoracoid, predentate, pre-esophageal, &c.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
From the inner side of the neck of the coracoid arises the precoracoidal process, the remnant of the precoracoid.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
It may include three bones on each side named coracoid, precoracoid, and scapula.
From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by H. G. Seeley
The bone is perforated by a foramen, which would probably lie in the line of separation from the precoracoid if any such separation had ever taken place.
From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by H. G. Seeley