scaphoid

[skaf-oid]

adjective

boat-shaped; navicular.

noun

Anatomy. a navicular.

Origin of scaphoid

1735–45; < New Latin scaphoīdēs < Greek skaphoeidḗs like a boat. See scaph(o)-, -oid

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Examples from the Web for scaphoid

Historical Examples of scaphoid

(b.) Below the ankle, close to the attachment to the scaphoid.
A Manual of the Operations of Surgery
Joseph Bell
The corner of the scaphoid just reaches the magnum also in Amblypoda.
The Vertebrate Skeleton
Sidney H. Reynolds
In Echidna the carpus is broad, the scaphoid and lunar are united and there is no centrale.
The Vertebrate Skeleton
Sidney H. Reynolds
In the carpus a centrale is present, and the scaphoid and lunar are separate.
The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia
Frank Evers Beddard
The scaphoid and lunar are separate, and there is a centrale.
The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia
Frank Evers Beddard

British Dictionary definitions for scaphoid

scaphoid

adjective

anatomy an obsolete word for navicular

Word Origin for scaphoid

C18: via New Latin from Greek skaphoeidēs, from skaphē boat

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Word Origin and History for scaphoid

adj.

1741, from Modern Latin scaphoides "boat-shaped," from Greek skaphoeides, with -oeides (see -oid) + skaphe "light boat, skiff;" also "basin, trough, a bowl;" literally "thing dug or cut out," from PIE *skabh-, from root *(s)kep- "to cut" (see scabies). Related: Scaphoidal (1680s).

scaphoid in Medicine

scaphoid

[skăf′oid′]

adj.

Shaped like a boat; hollow.

navicular