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 summit is pointed, bifid, and hardly large enough for more than two persons.

From Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland by Hart, H. C.

The distal subarticular tubercle of the fourth finger is either bifid or double in all specimens; that on the third finger usually is bifid, sometimes single.

From A Review of the Middle American Tree Frogs of the Genus Ptychohyla by Duellman, William E.