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sesamoid

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Adjective
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ses=a=moid

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun sesamoid has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

sesamoida. [Gr. like sesame; sesame + e'i^dos form: cf. F. sésamoïde.].
  •  Resembling in shape the seeds of sesame.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Of or pertaining to the sesamoid bones or cartilages; sesamoidal.  [1913 Webster]
Sesamoid bones, Sesamoid cartilages (Anat.), small bones or cartilages formed in tendons, like the patella and pisiform in man.
sesamoidn. 
     A sesamoid bone or cartilage.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

sesamoid, adj. & n.
--adj. shaped like a sesame seed; nodular (esp. of small independent bones developed in tendons passing over an angular structure such as the kneecap and the navicular bone).
--n. a sesamoid bone.

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