"Sphenoid" is a word in ENGLISH

Pertaining to or forming the wing of the sphenoid; relating to a bone in the base of the skull, which …

Applied to a protuberance of the base of the sphenoid bone.

Like a bed; -- applied to several processes on the inner side of the sphenoid bone.

A depression in the sphenoid bone; the pituitary fossa.

Pertaining to a small Wormian bone sometimes present in the human skull between the parietal and the great wing of …

Hooked; hooklike; hamate; as, the hamular process of the sphenoid bone.

Of or pertaining to the sphenoid bone and the orbit, or to the orbitosphenoid bone.

The orbitosphenoid bone, which is situated in the orbit on either side of the presphenoid. It generally forms a part …

Near the sphenoid bone; -- applied especially to a bone situated immediately beneath the sphenoid in the base of the …

Of or pertaining to the posterior part of the sphenoid bone.

Situated in front of the sphenoid bone; of or pertaining to the anterior part of the sphenoid bone (i. e., …

Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the pterygoid bones, pterygoid processes, or the whole sphenoid bone.

Of or pertaining to both the sphenoidal and the ethmoidal regions of the skull, or the sphenethmoid bone; sphenethmoidal.

A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the sphenoid bone; as in sphenomaxillary, sphenopalatine.

Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the body of the sphenoid bone.

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

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