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Sphenethmoid   Listen
noun
Sphenethmoid  n.  (Anat.) The sphenethmoid bone.


adjective
Sphenethmoid  adj.  (Anat.) Of or pertaining to both the sphenoidal and the ethmoidal regions of the skull, or the sphenethmoid bone; sphenethmoidal.
Sphenethmoid bone (Anat.), a bone of the skull which surrounds the anterior end of the brain in many amphibia; the girdle bone.





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"Sphenethmoid" Quotes from Famous Books



... delicate (except for casque-headed hylids, such as Corythomantis, Diaglena, Osteocephalus, Triprion) and generalized skulls. Allophryne on the other hand has a strongly ossified central region (cranial roofing bones and sphenethmoid complex) and a weak peripheral zone. The peripheral elements are reduced (maxilla, pterygoid, and squamosal) or absent (quadratojugal), whereas the frontoparietals, nasals, sphenethmoid, prooetics, and exoccipitals form a compact central zone. An elongate ...
— Systematic Status of a South American Frog, Allophryne ruthveni Gaige • John D. Lynch


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