/sɛnˈtreɪlɪə/, /sɛnˈtrɑːlɪə/, U.S. /sɛnˈtreɪliə/, /sɛnˈtrɑliə/.centralen.
/sɛnˈtreɪli/, /sɛnˈtrɑːleɪ/, U.S. /sɛnˈtreɪli/, /sɛnˈtrɑleɪ//sɛnˈtreɪlɪə/, /sɛnˈtrɑːlɪə/, U.S. /sɛnˈtreɪliə/, /sɛnˈtrɑliə/. Chiefly Zoology.
= os centrale n.
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bones of arm or leg > bones of arm > [noun] > bones of forearm > bones of wrist
navicular?a1425
navicular bone?a1425
wrist-bone1552
carpus1686
scaphoid bone1741
pisiform bone1753
pisiform1808
trapezoid1828
trapezium1840
unciform1840
scaphoid1846
carpal1854
lunar1854
centrale1870
radiale1870
intermedium1878
lunar bone1887
capitate1889
triquetral bone1913
1870 W. H. Flower Introd. Osteol. Mammalia xvi. 263 In another species, H[yrax] dorsalis, the pollex is reduced to a short metacarpal; the fifth digit has but two phalanges, and the centrale is united with the trapezoid.
1878 F. J. Bell & E. R. Lankester tr. C. Gegenbaur Elements Compar. Anat. 482 A centrale, also, is not unfrequently present.
1908 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 16 395 The tarsus has two bones in the proximal row, a centrale and four distalia.
1986 A. S. Romer & T. S. Parsons Vertebr. Body (ed. 6) vii. 220 The centralia..are almost always reduced. Even the most primitive reptiles never have more than two; a single centrale is a common reptilian and mammalian condition.
2007 Jrnl. Vertebr. Paleontol. 27 994/2 All carpals were recovered except for the centrale and trapezoid.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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