sesamoideus

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σησᾰμοειδής (sēsamoeidḗs, sesame-shaped), with alteration of the ending to -eus or -ēus. Compare sēsamoīdēs.

Pronunciation

Adjective

sēsamoīdē̆us (feminine sēsamoīdē̆a, neuter sēsamoīdē̆um); first/second-declension adjective

  1. (anatomy) sesamoid
    Synonyms: sēsamoīdēs, sēsaminus
    os sēsamoīdē̆um
    a sesamoid bone
    • 1715, C. J. Trew, De chylosi Foetus in utero, quoted in On the Sesamoids of the Knee-Joint[1]:
      os sesamoideum insidens cavitate condyli exterioris in omnibus femoribus conspicuae
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Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Descendants

  • Italian: sesamoideo (learned)
  • Spanish: sesamoideo (learned)

References

  1. ^ Karl Pearson, Adelaide G. Davin (1922) Drapers' Company Research Memoirs: Biometric Series XII: On the Sesamoids of the Knee-Joint (reprinted from Biometrika Vol. XIII, 1921), page 41