A bone or bony process, especially the coracoid process on the shoulder blade in humans or the coracoid bone in fish and other vertebrates.
From Greek 'korax' (raven) + '-oid' (resembling). Named because the process resembles a raven's beak. The term was established in anatomical texts by the 16th century.
The coracoid process got its name because medieval anatomists thought it looked like a raven's beak—it's a great example of how fanciful anatomists were, naming things after animals just based on appearance rather than function!
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