Word Meanings - SUPRASPHENOIDAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Situated above the sphenoidal bone; as, the suprasphenoidal appendage, or pituitary body.

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• SITUATE
  To place. Landor.
• 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.
• APPENDAGE
  A subordinate or subsidiary part or organ; an external organ or limb, esp. of the articulates. Antennæ and other appendages used for feeling. Carpenter. Syn. -- Addition; adjunct; concomitant. (more info) 1. Something appended to, or accompanying,
• PITUITARY
  Secreting mucus or phlegm; as, the pituitary membrane, or the mucous membrane which lines the nasal cavities. Of or pertaining to the pituitary body; as, the pituitary fossa. Pituitary body or gland , a glandlike body of unknown function, situated
• APPENDAGED
  Furnished with, or supplemented by, an appendage.
• ABOVEDECK
  On deck; and hence, like aboveboard, without artifice. Smart.
• SPHENOIDAL
  Pertaining to, or resembling, a sphenoid. (more info) 1. Sphenoid.
• SUPRASPHENOIDAL
  Situated above the sphenoidal bone; as, the suprasphenoidal appendage, or pituitary body.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• SUPERSPHENOIDAL
  Situated above, or on the dorsal side of, the body of the sphenoid bone.
• PRESPHENOIDAL
  Of or pertaining to the presphenoid bone; presphenoid.
• ORBITOSPHENOIDAL
  Of or pertaining to the orbitosphenoid bone; orbitosphenoid.