Hamated vs Hamate - What's the difference?

hamated | hamate |


As adjectives the difference between hamated and hamate

is that hamated is hooked, or set with hooks; hamate while hamate is (anatomy) hooked at the tip.

As a noun hamate is

the hamate bone.

Other Comparisons: What's the difference?

hamated

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Hooked, or set with hooks; hamate.
  • * Jonathan Swift, The Mechanical Operation of Spirit:
    • Farther, that nothing less than a violent Heat, can disentangle these Creatures [animal spirits] from their hamated station of Life, or give them Vigor and Humor, to imprint the Marks of their little Teeth.
  • * 1802 , Samuel Latham Mitchill, The Medical Repository
    • The jaws were furnished with hooks or hamated teeth, in the manner common to snakes.
    (Webster 1913)

    hamate

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (anatomy) Hooked at the tip.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The hamate bone.

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