Definition of "hamate" [ha•mate]

• Anatomy Hooked at the tip. (adjective)
• A small, hook-shaped carpal bone of the wrist. Also called unciform. (noun)

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• "GRAHAM: Probably the most frequent acute injury we see in golf is when the ground is struck forcibly, there's a small prominence in the palm of your hand called the hamate bone."
• "But Norris, who missed several games, feels he rushed back, and the symptoms from the hamate surgery never fully went away until he arrived in the Instructional League."
• "At the end of spring training, he injured his left hand, which in the offseason had required surgery to remove a hamate bone."