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形容詞

cornuate (comparative more cornuate, superlative most cornuate)

1. (medicine, zoology) Horn-shaped, as with a bicornuate uterus.
   • 1863, Thomas Henry Huxley, “Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature”, in The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal‎, volume 117, page 557:

     […] that in the higher apes, Troglodytes, Pithecus, the posterior cavity of the tricornate ventricle becomes of larger dimensions than in Cercopithecus, although far inferior in size and diverse in shape, from the much deeper, and more incurved cornuate bay which forms the digital cavity of man.

   • 1999, David L. Dineley, Fossil fishes of Great Britain, page 121:

     Five species of cornuate osteostracans have been discovered at Devils Hole, and a further three or four species are probably represented by indeterminate fragmentary material.

   • 1990 July, Bennett GL, Weiner DS, Leighley B., “Surgical treatment of symptomatic accessory tarsal navicular”, in Journal of Pediatric Orthopedics‎, volume 10, number 4, pages 445–9:

     Surgical treatment consisted of excision of the accessory tarsal navicular or medial protuberance of a prominent cornuate-shaped navicular combined with simple replication of the tibialis posterior tendon without altering its course.

派生語

アナグラム

• courante, outrance