Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small bone, or center of ossification, which lies anterior to the coracoid and in contact with it and the scapula: present in monotremes, plesiosaurs, etc. In birds the procoracoid is represented by a process on the shaft of the coracoid just below the glenoid cavity. Same as the procoracoid of Huxley and others.
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(scapula, ilium) and two ventral parts (pubis and procoracoid cartilage, ischium and coracoid), and at the meeting-place of the three in each case the proximal bone of the limb (humerus, femur) articulates.
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