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Definition of Navicular
1. Noun. The largest wrist bone on the thumb side.
2. Adjective. Shaped like a boat.
Definition of Navicular
1. a. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a boat or ship.
2. n. The navicular bone.
Definition of Navicular
1. Adjective. Shaped like a boat. ¹
2. Noun. (anatomy) A navicular bone. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Navicular
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Navicular
1.
1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a boat or ship.
2. Shaped like a boat; cymbiform; scaphoid; as, the navicular glumes of most grasses; the navicular bone. Navicular bone.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Navicular
Literary usage of Navicular
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The only ligament of this joint is the superior astragalo-navicular. It is a
broad band, which passes obliquely forward from the neck of the astragalus to ..."
2. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Allen Thomson, George Dancer Thane (1882)
"The navicular and cuboid bones are connected by a dorsal ligament, ... The navicular
articulates with he three cuneiform bones by the smooth facets on its ..."
3. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1908)
"A study of the navicular in the Human and Anthropoid Foot. ... Of the bones of
the human foot the navicular is perhaps the most interesting. ..."
4. The Anatomy of the human skeleton by Henry Morris, John Ernest Frazer (1914)
"The ligaments uniting the navicular with the three cuneiform bones are:— Dorsal.
... The dorsal cuneo-navicular ligament is very strong, and stretches as a ..."
5. Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham, Arthur Robinson (1914)
"Cuneo - navicular Articulation. — The three cuneiform bones articulate with the
anterior surface of the navicular. They are held in position by dorsal ..."
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