Medical Dictionary

coracoid process

noun

Medical Definition of CORACOID PROCESS

:  a process of the scapula in most mammals representing the remnant of the coracoid bone of lower vertebrates that has become fused with the scapula and in humans is situated on its superior border and serves for the attachment of various muscles

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