Having the shape or form of a fulcrum, resembling a prop or support point; wedge-shaped or pointed at one end.
From Latin 'fulcrum' (support, prop) combined with '-form' (shape), literally meaning 'having the shape of a support,' used in anatomy and engineering to describe structures.
The term reveals how scientists borrow architectural language to describe biological structures—when anatomists saw bone processes that looked like pivots, they borrowed the vocabulary of engineering to give them precise names.
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