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Mastoid

noun
1.
Process of the temporal bone behind the ear at the base of the skull.  Synonyms: mastoid bone, mastoid process, mastoidal.
adjective
1.
Of or relating to or in the region of the mastoid process.
2.
Relating to or resembling a nipple.  Synonym: mastoidal.



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"Mastoid" Quotes from Famous Books



... perpendicular, to such a degree that in a group of skulls those of the two sexes have been mistaken for different types; the superciliary ridges and the glabella are less developed, often not at all; the crown is higher and more horizontal; the brain weight and cranial capacity are less; the mastoid apophyses, the inion, the styloid apophyses, and the condyles of the occipital are of less volume, the zygomatic and alveolar arches are ...
— Sex and Society • William I. Thomas
... under my medical charge slept well, had their anxiety improved, and some of them ultimately recovered, after the application of a strong counter-irritation of the pneumogastric nerves in the neck, namely, between the mastoid process and the angle of the lower jaw, I tried the same treatment on whooping patients, and I have no hesitation in stating that the result was very satisfactory. I may quote one single case of the many I have had ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889 • Various
... (topotypes) to the northwestward, T. t. attenuatus differs in shorter body, slightly grayer color, less width across mastoid region of skull, smaller tympanic bullae, and more ...
— Two New Pocket Gophers from Wyoming and Colorado • E. Raymond Hall
... ear is also connected with a cavity in the bone back of the ear (mastoid cavity or cells), and the outer and lower wall is formed by the drum membrane. Vibrations started by sound waves which strike the ear are connected by means of a chain of three little bones from the drum through the middle ear to the nervous apparatus ...
— The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) • Various


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