CORONOID PROCESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coronoid process mean? 

• CORONOID PROCESS (noun)
  The noun CORONOID PROCESS has 1 sense:

1. a sharp triangular process projecting from a bone

  Familiarity information: CORONOID PROCESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORONOID PROCESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sharp triangular process projecting from a bone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

coronoid process; processus coronoideus

Hypernyms ("coronoid process" is a kind of...):

appendage; outgrowth; process (a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coronoid process"):

coronoid process of the mandible (the coronoid process that provides an attachment for the temporal muscle)

Holonyms ("coronoid process" is a part of...):

bone; os (rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates)