Groove (Noun)
Meaning 1
(anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part.
Classification
Nouns denoting body parts.
Examples
- The ulnar groove on the medial aspect of the humerus provides a tunnel for the ulnar nerve.
- The intervertebral discs fit into grooves on the adjacent vertebrae to form a stable joint.
- Sutures are the fibrous joints between the skull bones with characteristic overlapping edges in a groove.
- The groove for the tendon of the flexor pollicis longus muscle is located on the radius bone.
- The stylomastoid foramen is a groove that transmits the facial nerve and stylomastoid artery.
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Meaning 2
A long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record).
Classification
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes.