supranaviculare

English

Noun

supranaviculare

1. A small sesamoid bone in the foot found in some humans.
   • 1941, Japanese Journal of Medical Sciences, The Council, page 851:

     This body can not be considered as a kind of variation of the skelet, of supranaviculare, which is found very seldom.

   • 2007, William S. C. Hare, Medico-legal Radiology, Elsevier Australia, →ISBN, page 104:

     It was also noted that the fragment was not an os supranaviculare, which occurs at the proximal end of the navicular.

   • 2014, M.B. Ozonoff, Rebecca Stein-Wexler, Sandra L. Wootton-Gorges, Pediatric Orthopedic Imaging, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, →ISBN, page 473:

     Os trigonum and os supranaviculare in a 12-year-old girl.