semilunar bone

1. 1.

   one of the eight small wrist bones

   Synonymslunate boneos lunatum

   Broadercarpal bone

Questions about semilunar bone

What does semilunar bone mean?

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

What is another word for semilunar bone?

Close synonyms include lunate 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 semilunar bone a common word?

semilunar 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.