Word Meanings - SUPERSPHENOIDAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Situated above, or on the dorsal side of, the body of the sphenoid bone.

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• SPHENOID
  Of or pertaining to the sphenoid bone. Sphenoid bone , an irregularly shaped bone in front of the occipital in the base of the skull of the higher vertebrates. It is composed of several fetal bones which become united the adult. See Alisphenoid,
• SITUATE
  To place. Landor.
• DORSALLY
  On, or toward, the dorsum, or back; on the dorsal side of; dorsad.
• ABOVEBOARD
  Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception. "Fair and aboveboard." Burke. Note: This expression is said by Johnson to have been borrowed from gamesters, who, when they change their cards, put their hands
• ABOVESAID
  Mentioned or recited before.
• SITUATE; SITUATED
  1. Having a site, situation, or location; being in a relative position; permanently fixed; placed; located; as, a town situated, or situate, on a hill or on the seashore. 2. Placed; residing. Pleasure situate in hill and dale. Milton. Note: Situate
• ABOVE-MENTIONED; ABOVE-NAMED
  Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.
• ABOVEDECK
  On deck; and hence, like aboveboard, without artifice. Smart.
• SPHENOIDAL
  Pertaining to, or resembling, a sphenoid. (more info) 1. Sphenoid.
• DORSAL
  Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral. Pertaining to the surface naturally inferior,
• SITUATION
  1. Manner in which an object is placed; location, esp. as related to something else; position; locality site; as, a house in a pleasant situation. 2. Position, as regards the conditions and circumstances of the case. A situation of the greatest
• ABOVE-CITED
  Cited before, in the preceding part of a book or writing.
• DORSALE
  See N
• ABOVE
  1. In or to a higher place; higher than; on or over the upper surface; over; -- opposed to below or beneath. Fowl that may fly above the earth. Gen. i. 20. 2. Figuratively, higher than; superior to in any respect; surpassing; beyond; higher in
• SUBSPHENOIDAL
  Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the body of the sphenoid bone.
• PARASPHENOID
  Near the sphenoid bone; -- applied especially to a bone situated immediately beneath the sphenoid in the base of the skull in many animals. -- n.
• ALISPHENOID; ALISPHENOIDAL
  Pertaining to or forming the wing of the sphenoid; relating to a bone in the base of the skull, which in the adult is often consolidated with the sphenoid; as, alisphenoid bone; alisphenoid canal.
• ALISPHENOID
  The alisphenoid bone.
• BASISPHENOID; BASISPHENOIDAL
  Of or pertaining to that part of the base of the cranium between the basioccipital and the presphenoid, which usually ossifies separately in the embryo or in the young, and becomes a part of the sphenoid in the adult.
• POSTSPHENOID
  Of or pertaining to the posterior part of the sphenoid bone.
• ORBITOSPHENOID
  Of or pertaining to the sphenoid bone and the orbit, or to the orbitosphenoid bone. -- n.
• PRESPHENOID
  Situated in front of the sphenoid bone; of or pertaining to the anterior part of the sphenoid bone . Presphenoid bone , the anterior part of the body of the sphenoid bone in front of the basisphenoid. It is usually a separate bone in the young
• SUPERSPHENOIDAL
  Situated above, or on the dorsal side of, the body of the sphenoid bone.
• PRESPHENOIDAL
  Of or pertaining to the presphenoid bone; presphenoid.
• SUPRASPHENOIDAL
  Situated above the sphenoidal bone; as, the suprasphenoidal appendage, or pituitary body.