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Word Meanings - STYLOMASTOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the styloid and mastoid processes of the temporal bone.

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  • TEMPORALNESS
    Worldliness. Cotgrave.
  • TEMPORALTY
    1. The laity; secular people. Abp. Abbot. 2. A secular possession; a temporality.
  • MASTOIDITIS
    Inflammation in the mastoid process of the temporal bone.
  • MASTOIDAL
    See MASTOID
  • PERTAIN
    stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
  • TEMPORALITY
    1. The state or quality of being temporary; -- opposed to perpetuity. 2. The laity; temporality. Sir T. More. 3. That which pertains to temporal welfare; material interests; especially, the revenue of an ecclesiastic proceeding from
  • TEMPORALLY
    In a temporal manner; secularly. South.
  • MASTOID
    Resembling the nipple or the breast; -- applied specifically to a process of the temporal bone behind the ear. Pertaining to, or in the region of, the mastoid process; mastoidal.
  • STYLOID
    Of or pertaining to the styloid process. Styloid process , a long and slender process from the lower side of the temporal bone of man, corresponding to the tympanohyal and stylohyal of other animals. (more info) 1. Styliform; as, the
  • TEMPORAL
    Of or pertaining to the temple or temples; as, the temporal bone; a temporal artery. Temporal bone, a very complex bone situated in the side of the skull of most mammals and containing the organ of hearing. It consists of an expanded squamosal
  • STYLOMASTOID
    Of or pertaining to the styloid and mastoid processes of the temporal bone.
  • STERNOMASTOID
    Of or pertaining to the sternum and the mastoid process.
  • PARAMASTOID
    Situated beside, or near, the mastoid portion of the temporal bone; paroccipital; -- applied especially to a process of the skull in some animals.
  • SUPRATEMPORAL
    Situated above the temporal bone or temporal fossa. -- n.
  • SUPERTEMPORAL
    That which is more than temporal; that which is eternal.
  • PRETEMPORAL
    Situated in front of the temporal bone.
  • EXTEMPORAL
    Extemporaneous; unpremeditated. B. Jonson. -- Ex*tem"po*ral*ly, adv.
  • POST-TEMPORAL
    Situated back of the temporal bone or the temporal region of the skull; -- applied especially to a bone which usually connects the supraclavicle with the skull in the pectoral arch of fishes. -- n.
  • INFRATEMPORAL
    Below the temple; below the temporal bone.
  • PETROMASTOID
    Of or pertaining to the petrous and mastoid parts of the temporal bone, periotic.

 

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