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Sphenoid   Listen
noun
Sphenoid  n.  
1.
(Crystallog.) A wedge-shaped crystal bounded by four equal isosceles triangles. It is the hemihedral form of a square pyramid.
2.
(Anat.) The sphenoid bone.





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"Sphenoid" Quotes from Famous Books



... the same manner as at present. Thus, he notices the quadrilateral shape of the parietal bones; he distinguishes the squamous, the styloid, the mastoid and the petrous portions of the temporal bones; and he remarks the peculiar situation and shape of the sphenoid bone. Of the ethmoid, which he omits at first, he afterwards speaks more at large in another treatise. The malar he notices under the name of zygomatic bone; and he describes at length the upper maxillary and nasal bones, and the connexion of the former ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia


Words linked to "Sphenoid" :   sphenoid fontanel, skull, crotaphion, os, sphenoid fontanelle


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