pisiform

adjective

Resembling a pea in size or shape.

noun

A small bone at the junction of the ulna and the carpus.

Having the form of a pea, as an ossification in tendons at joints; having a structure resembling peas. A variety of iron ore is called pisiform, from its being made up of small rounded masses about the size of a pea.

noun

In anatomy, a sesamoid bone, of about the size and shape of a pea, developed in the tendon of the flexor carpi ulnaris muscle of man and some other animals.

adjective

Resembling a pea or peas in size and shape.

noun

A small bone on the ulnar side of the carpus in man and many mammals. See Illust. of artiodactyla.

adjective

Resembling a pea in size or shape

noun

A small bone in the wrist at the junction of the ulna and the carpus

noun

a small wrist bone that articulates only with the triquetral