Definitions for uncus

uncus un·cus

Spelling: [uhng-kuh s]
IPA: /ˈʌŋ kəs/

Uncus is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 24 anagrams from letters in uncus (cnsuu).

Definitions for uncus

noun

  1. any hook-shaped or curved part of a body process, especially the hippocampal gyrus in the temporal lobe of the brain.

Origin of uncus

1820-30; New Latin, Latin: literally, hook

Examples for uncus

Eventually it ends in the substance of the hippocampus and in the uncus of the temporal lobe.

The olfactory and gustatory centres are situated in the uncus close to the pituitary fossa.

Scaphium: a ventral process of the 10th abdominal segment in male Lepidoptera below the uncus.

Greek, ; Latin, uncus, ferramentum quo in sectione calculus protrahitur.

The uncus, and subiculum cornu ammonis of the human brain, belong to it.

Word Value for uncus
Scrable

7

Words with friends

11

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