What's the difference between unciform and uncoform?
Unciform
Definition:
(a.) Having the shape of a hook; being of a curved or hooked from; hooklike.
(n.) The unciform bone. See Illust. of Perissodactyla.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most specific structures of the cervical vertebrae -- the transverse, unciform, and articular processes, and the vertebral pedicle -- embody from the ontogenetic, the morphofunctional and the pathogenetic point of view, a unity named the uncotransversoarticular complex.
(2) Unciform sclerotization of tergum VIII (or the place of connection between tergum VIII and its internal lobe) resembles an arc.
(3) The theory of Hall that the unciform processes are essential for rotation is confirmed and further elaborated.
(4) They are nasal septal deviation, pneumatization and paradoxical curvature of the middle turbinate, pneumatization of unciform process, Haller's cells, prominent agger nasi cell and ethmoid bulla.
(5) The anatomy of the ethmoid is fairly complex; however certain constant anatomic landmarks allow a systematic analysis of the ethmoid labyrinth: the unciform process, the bulla, the middle turbinate, the superior turbinate and their respective basal lamellae.
(6) Certain anatomical parts such as the bulla, the unciform process, the ostia of the maxillary and frontal sinus are relatively set in their positions, but quite variable in their shape and size.
(7) The authors describe the occurrence of a hematic cyst in the region of the pyramido-unciform joint, with prompt and complete restoration of ulnar nerve function after surgical removal of the cyst.
(8) Lymphadenectomy was confined to the following five fascial-fatty spaces: hepato-unciform, spleno-unciform, paraaortic, splenic and left reno-aortic.