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bicrurate

bicrurate adjective: having two crura (leglike shanks).

Adjective

bicrurate (not comparable)

  1. Having two crura (leglike shanks)
    • Novaceck and Wyss [31 ] analyzed the significance of these different morphologies and pointed out that whereas the lack of a stapedial foramen is necessarily correlated with the stapedial artery not going through the stapes, the stapedial artery does not always pierce the stapes in bicrurate stapes.2015 July 16, “The Stapes of Gomphodont Cynodonts: Insights into the Middle Ear Structure of Non-Mammaliaform Cynodonts”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of bicrurate

From bi + Latin crur- + -ate.

Questions about bicrurate

What does bicrurate mean?
Bicrurate means having two crura (leglike shanks).
What part of speech is bicrurate?
Bicrurate is an adjective.

Words near bicrurate in the dictionary

  1. bicron
  2. bicrons
  3. bicrossproduct
  4. bicrossproducts
  5. bicrural
  6. bicrurate
  7. bicrystal
  8. bicrystals
  9. bics
  10. bictegravir
  11. Bicton

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