"Sphenoid" is a word in ENGLISH
The sphenoid bone.
Of or pertaining to the sphenoid bone.
A wedge-shaped crystal bounded by four equal isosceles
triangles. It is the hemihedral form of a square pyramid.
Wedge-shaped; as, a sphenoid crystal.
Ay me! for aught that I ever could read Could ever hear by tale or history The course of true love never did run smooth.
WORD SUGGESTIONS
So this trumpet player dies. When he reaches is everlasting reward, the guy in the robe says, "You're going to spend eternity with this combo, okay? There's a bass player named 'Mingus' and a pianist named 'Monk', and any day now we expect this 'Blakey' guy to show up with his drums."Wow!" the guy says, "I never imagined heaven would be this good."The man in the robe says, "This is hell, not heaven. There's a girl singer."
Pertaining to or forming the wing of the sphenoid; relating to a bone in the base of the skull, which …
Read the complete definitionApplied to a protuberance of the base of the sphenoid bone.
Read the complete definitionLike a bed; -- applied to several processes on the inner side of the sphenoid bone.
Read the complete definitionA depression in the sphenoid bone; the pituitary fossa.
Read the complete definitionPertaining to a small Wormian bone sometimes present in the human skull between the parietal and the great wing of …
Read the complete definitionHooked; hooklike; hamate; as, the hamular process of the sphenoid bone.
Read the complete definitionOf or pertaining to the sphenoid bone and the orbit, or to the orbitosphenoid bone.
Read the complete definitionThe orbitosphenoid bone, which is situated in the orbit on either side of the presphenoid. It generally forms a part …
Read the complete definitionNear the sphenoid bone; -- applied especially to a bone situated immediately beneath the sphenoid in the base of the …
Read the complete definitionOf or pertaining to the posterior part of the sphenoid bone.
Read the complete definitionSituated in front of the sphenoid bone; of or pertaining to the anterior part of the sphenoid bone (i. e., …
Read the complete definitionOf, pertaining to, or in the region of, the pterygoid bones, pterygoid processes, or the whole sphenoid bone.
Read the complete definitionOf or pertaining to both the sphenoidal and the ethmoidal regions of the skull, or the sphenethmoid bone; sphenethmoidal.
Read the complete definitionA combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the sphenoid bone; as in sphenomaxillary, sphenopalatine.
Read the complete definitionSituated under, or on the ventral side of, the body of the sphenoid bone.
Read the complete definitionSituated above, or on the dorsal side of, the body of the sphenoid bone.
Read the complete definitionSituated above the sphenoidal bone; as, the suprasphenoidal appendage, or pituitary body.
Read the complete definition