lunate bone

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   one of the eight small wrist bones

   Synonymssemilunar boneos lunatum

   Broadercarpal bone

Questions about lunate bone

What does lunate bone mean?

lunate bone means "one of the eight small wrist bones".

What is another word for lunate bone?

Close synonyms include semilunar bone, os lunatum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lunate bone a common word?

lunate bone is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.