uncus
noun
any hook-shaped or curved part of a body process, especially the hippocampal gyrus in the temporal lobe of the brain.
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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The unci are furnished with finger-like processes of teeth, which vary in number.
From Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations by Henry J. Slack