| beaked | 1. Having a beak or a beaklike point; beak-shaped. "Each beaked promontory." 2. <biology> Furnished with a process or a mouth like a beak; rostrate. <zoology> Beaked whale, a cetacean of the genus Hyperoodon; the bottlehead whale. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| beaked pelvis | A pelvic deformity in osteomalacia; the pressure of the trunk on the sacrum and lateral pressure of the femoral heads produce a pelvic aperture that is three-cornered or has the shape of a heart or cloverleaf, while the pubic bone becomes beak-shaped. Synonym: beaked pelvis, rostrate pelvis. (05 Mar 2000) |