sesamoid

Of or designating any of certain small modular bones or cartilages that develop in a tendon or in the capsule of a joint.

A sesamoid bone or cartilage.

Having the shape of a grain of sesame: especially applied in anatomy to small independent osseous or cartilaginous bodies occurring in tendinous structures.

In anatomy, a bone developed in the tendon of a muscle at or near a joint; a scleroskel-etal ossification, usually of a nodular shape.

Resembling in shape the seeds of sesame.

Of or pertaining to the sesamoid bones or cartilages; sesamoidal.

small bones or cartilages formed in tendons, like the patella and pisiform in man.

A sesamoid bone or cartilage.

Resembling a sesame seed in size or shape.