Navicular

Definitions and meanings of "Navicular"

What do we mean by navicular?

A comma-shaped bone of the human wrist, located in the first row of carpals. noun

A concave bone of the human foot, located between the talus and the metatarsals. noun

Shaped like a boat; scaphoid. adjective

Relating to small ships or boats; shaped like a boat; cymbiform. Specifically

In anatomy, scaphoid: applied to certain bones of the hand and foot. See II.

In entomology, oblong or ovate, with a concave disk and raised margins, as the bodies of certain insects.

In botany, resembling or belonging to the genus Navicula; boat-shaped.

In anatomy: noun

The scaphoid bone of the carpus; the radiale, or bone of the proximal row on the radial side of the wrist. See cut under hand. noun

The scaphoid bone of the tarsus, a bone of the proximal row, on the inner or tibial side, in special relation with the astragalus and the cuneiform bones. See cut under foot. noun

A large transversely extended sesamoid bone developed in the tendon of the deep flexor, at the back of the distal phalangeal articulation of the foot of the horse, between the coronary and the coffin-bone. See cut under fetter-bone. noun

The navicular bone. noun

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a boat or ship. adjective

Shaped like a boat; cymbiform; scaphoid adjective

A proximal bone on the radial side of the carpus; the scaphoid. adjective

A disease affecting the navicular bone, or the adjacent parts, in a horse's foot. adjective

Shaped like a boat. adjective

A navicular bone. noun

The largest wrist bone on the thumb side noun

Shaped like a boat adjective

A navicular bone.

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The word "navicular" in example sentences

He told the court Mr Ladhams failed to reveal during negotiations for the sale that Sound Action had undergone extensive treatment for what is known as a "navicular" problem in her front hooves. ❋ Unknown (2011)

If the foot be forcibly extended, the head of the talus appears as a rounded prominence on the medial side of the dorsum; just in front of this prominence and behind the tuberosity of the navicular is the talonavicular joint. ❋ Unknown (1918)

1819 Moorcroft made it even plainer still that he was fully acquainted with what we now know as navicular disease. ❋ Harry Caulton Reeks (N/A)

It may accompany chronic diseases of the foot, such as navicular disease and side-bones. ❋ R. A. Craig (N/A)

_ -- Horses knuckling at the fetlock, and all those with diseases which impair the powers of locomotion, such as navicular disease, contracted heels, sidebones, chronic laminitis, etc., are predisposed to sprains of the fetlock. ❋ Charles B. Michener (1877)

'navicular' have in reality been nothing more than contraction brought about by one or other of the causes we shall afterwards enumerate -- cases where a due attention to the prime cause of the mischief would, in all likelihood, have remedied the lameness. ❋ Harry Caulton Reeks (N/A)

For the price of admission, you not only get to see the competitions, but there are lectures on navicular, the pre-purchase exam, growing and baling your own hay, and equine ulcers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

On the cart lay the following: proximal and distal portions of a left femur; a fragment of proximal left fibula; two fragments of left tibia, one proximal, the other distal, including the mangled malleolus; a portion of left pelvis extending from the pubic bone out into the blade; the talus, navicular, and third and second cuneiforms from a left foot. ❋ Kathy Reichs (2010)

The “hobbit” navicular bone is more akin to that found in great apes, which means that these hominins lacked an arch and were not efficient long-term runners. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But the pivotal clue comes from the navicular bone, an important tarsal bone that helps form the arch in a modern human foot. ❋ Unknown (2009)

His nerves had been removed from his left foot and leg, and he was now feeling the initial pain of navicular disease in the right foot. ❋ Penelope Smith (2009)

I squeezed down across the coffin bone, the lowest bone under the hoof, and diagonally over the navicular bone, a small, wafer-shaped bone in the back of the hoof I also pushed across the bulbs of the heel. ❋ D.V.M. Donna Kelleher (2003)

But throughout their marriage, Debora had an inordinate number of accidents—the mysterious knee injury; a finger that became infected after she was bitten by a patient; the break in a tiny navicular bone in her wrist—an unusual injury, with subsequent complications. ❋ Ann Rule (2000)

He pointed out the small pastern bone, the navicular, which can easily be chipped enough to lame a horse so badly it has to be put down. ❋ McCaffrey, Anne (1996)

She worked longer at the groove between the internal cuneiform and navicular bones, which should quicken his flagging energies. ❋ McCaffrey, Anne (1990)

The wound extended down through the sole and opened the navicular joint. ❋ John Victor Lacroix (N/A)

We consider this name to be applicable to inflammatory involvement of the third sesamoid (navicular bone), the deep flexor tendon (perforans) and the bursa podotrochlearis or navicular bursa. ❋ John Victor Lacroix (N/A)

In inflammation of the posterior ligaments of the pastern joint, there is also absence of the characteristic stumbling which is seen in navicular disease. ❋ John Victor Lacroix (N/A)

All things considered, perhaps open joints rank, with respect to being serious cases as follows: elbow, navicular, stifle, tarsus, carpus, fetlock and pastern. ❋ John Victor Lacroix (N/A)

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