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adjective

Navicular adj.

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

Shaped like a boat; cymbiform; scaphoid; as, the navicular glumes of most grasses; the navicular bone.

Navicular bone. (Anat.)

(a)

One of the middle bones of the tarsus, corresponding to the centrale; called also scaphoid.

(b)

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

Navicular disease (Far.), a disease affecting the navicular bone, or the adjacent parts, in a horse's foot.

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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