arcuate

American  

[ahr-kyoo-it, -eyt] / ˈɑr kyu ɪt, -ˌeɪt /

Also arcuated

adjective

1. bent or curved like a bow.

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arcuate British  

/ -ˌeɪt, ˈɑːkjuːɪt /

adjective

1. Also: arcuated.  shaped or bent like an arc or bow

   arcuate leaves

   arcuate fibres of the cerebrum

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Other Word Forms

• arcuately adverb
• subarcuate adjective
• subarcuated adjective

Etymology

Origin of arcuate

1620–30; < Latin arcuātus bent like a bow, curved (past participle of arcuāre ), equivalent to arcu-, stem of arcus bow + -ātus -ate ¹

Example Sentences

Cortical radiate arteries, as the name suggests, radiate out from the arcuate arteries.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

These again split to form arcuate arteries, from which cortical radiate arteries radiate out and branch into many afferent arterioles that enter the capillaries supplying the nephrons.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

These again split to form arcuate arteries, from which cortical radiate arteries radiate out and branch into many afferent arterioles that enter the capillaries supplying the nephrons.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Connecting Broca’s area with Wernicke’s is a neural network: a thick, curving bundle of billions of nerve fibres, the arcuate fasciculus, which integrates the production and the comprehension of language.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 7, 2019

Beak long, slender, arcuate; face bare: 7 species.

From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William