Definition of Hamulus

1. n. A hook, or hooklike process.

Definition of Hamulus

1. Noun. (anatomy) A hook, or hooklike process. ¹

2. Noun. (zoology) A hooked barbicel of a feather. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hamulus

1. a small hook [n -LI] : HAMULAR, HAMULATE, HAMULOSE, HAMULOUS [adj]

Medical Definition of Hamulus

1. 1. A hook, or hooklike process. 2. A hooked barbicel of a feather. Origin: L. Dim. Of hamus, hook (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hamulus

hamstring tendon
hamstringer
hamstringers
hamstringing
hamstrings
hamstrung
hamular
hamular notch
hamular process of lacrimal bone
hamular process of sphenoid bone
hamulate
hamule
hamuli
hamulose
hamulous
hamulus (current term)
hamulus cochleae
hamulus lacrimalis
hamulus laminae spiralis
hamulus of spiral lamina
hamulus ossis hamati
hamulus pterygoideus
hamycin
hamza
hamzah
hamzahs
hamzas
hamzated
han't
han-geul

Literary usage of Hamulus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Maryland Geological Survey by Maryland Geological Survey (1916)
"hamulus squamosus Gabb, 1859, Ibidem, US p. 1. hamulus squamosus Gabb, 1860, Jour. ... hamulus squamosus was described by Gabb as "very closely allied to H. ..."

2. The Coastal Plain of North Carolina by William Bullock Clark, Benjamin LeRoy Miller (1912)
"NC hamulus major Gabb. Nucula n. sp. ... 5361—BLACK RIVER, NC, 621 MILES ABOVE WILMINGTON, NC hamulus major Gabb? ..."

3. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1895)
"Further cases are noticed wherein sharp spurs project outwards from the free edge of the external plate; where the hamulus of the internal plate attains ..."

4. London Journal of Medicine: A Monthly Record of the Medical Sciences. V. 1-4 (1849)
"This small hole leads to the scala tympani, while the open passage beneath the membraneous hamulus leads from the cupola into the scala vestibuli. ..."

5. Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham (1921)
"... continuous line of origin from the following parts: (a) the lower third of the posterior border of the medial pterygoid lamina and its hamulus ; (b) the ..."

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