bifid
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The 2-year-old had surgery for the condition, called preaxial polydactyly or bifid thumb, at Shriners Children’s Chicago hospital this year.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2023
The pads on the 3rd and 4th fingers become enlarged at the same time as the bifid claws develop.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 13, 2014
Figure 7.25 Cervical Vertebrae A typical cervical vertebra has a small body, a bifid spinous process, transverse processes that have a transverse foramen and are curved for spinal nerve passage.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The male blossoms have five petals and fifteen stamens; the females have no petals but a large oblong ovary bearing three bifid styles.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various
Variation.—Tubercles beneath the fourth fingers are bifid in 20 specimens and rounded in all others.
From A Review of the Middle American Tree Frogs of the Genus Ptychohyla by William E. Duellman
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