a. Phys. [ad. med.L. ancyroīd-es, a. Gr. ἀγκῡροειδής anchor-shaped: see ANCHOR and -OID. Sometimes made ankuroid.] Anchor-shaped; applied to a process of the shoulder-bone, also called the coracoid, and to the middle cornu of the lateral ventricle of the brain.
[1706. Phillips has Ancyroides.]
1839–47. Todd, Cycl. Anat. & Phys., III. 674/2. The posterior cornu is also named the digital, or ancyroid cavity.
