Meaning of sesamoides | Babel Free

Definitions

sesamoid

declension-3, one-termination

Examples

“Carpus constituitur ex ossibus octo; Metacarpus ex quatuor; Digiti ex quindecima [sic.] quibus ossicula Sesamoida, sic dicta à Sesami figura, in internodiis implicantur. [...] Ossa Tharsi sunt septem; Metatharsi quinque; Digitorum quatuordecim : quibus, ut in manu, sua ossa Sesamoida in internodiis implicantur.”

The carpus consists of eight bones; the metacarpus of four; the fingers of fifteenth [typo for quindecim 'fifteen'] of which the sesamoid ossicles, so called after the shape of sesame, are enveloped in the joints. … The bones of the tarsus are seven; of the metatarsus five; of the toes fourteen; of which, as in the hand, their sesamoid bones are enveloped in the joints.

“In censu quoque ossiculorum sesamoidum poni debent duo, quae in poplite inferioribus femoris appendicibus apponuntur, duorum priorum pedem moventium musculorum principiis inhaerent.”

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