a. Anat. [mod. f. Gr. κορώνη crow: see -OID.]
Applied to processes of bones of a curved form like a crow’s beak, and to parts in connection with these; esp. the c. process of the lower jaw, and that of the ulna, and the c. fossa of the humerus.
1741. A. Monro, Anatomy (ed. 3), 27. Such Processes as terminate in a sharp Point, have the general Name of coronoid bestowed on them.
1808. Reeve, ibid. XCVIII. 117. The zygomatic process terminates at the coronoid process of the lower jaw.
1865. Reader, No. 139. 242/3. The coronoid origin of this muscle.
1882. Syd. Soc. Lex., Coronoid fossa, a depression above the inner segment of the trochlear surface of the lower end of the humerus for the reception of the coronoid process of the ulna in flexion of the forearm.
