Word Meanings - ECTETHMOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

External to the ethmoid; prefrontal.

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• ETHMOID; ETHMOIDAL
  Like a sieve; cribriform. Pertaining to, or in the region of, the ethmoid bone. Ethmoid bone , a bone of complicated structure through which the olfactory nerves pass out of the cranium and over which they are largely distributed.
• EXTERNAL
  Away from the mesial plane of the body; lateral. External angles. See under Angle. (more info) 1. Outward; exterior; relating to the outside, as of a body; being without; acting from without; -- opposed to internal; as, the external
• EXTERNALLY
  In an external manner; outwardly; on the outside; in appearance; visibly.
• EXTERNALITY
  State of being external; exteriority;
• EXTERNALIZE
  To make external; to manifest by outward form. Thought externalizes itself in language. Soyce.
• PREFRONTAL
  Situated in front of the frontal bone, or the frontal region of the skull; ectethmoid, as a certain bone in the nasal capsule of many animals, and certain scales of reptiles and fishes. -- n.
• EXTERNALISM
  That philosophy or doctrine which recognizes or deals only with externals, or objects of sense perception; positivism; phenomenalism. (more info) 1. The quality of being manifest to the senses; external acts or appearances; regard for externals.
• EXTERNALISTIC
  Pertaining to externalism North Am. Rev.
• ETHMOID
  The ethmoid bone.
• SPHENOETHMOIDAL
  Sphenethmoid.
• ALIETHMOID; ALIETHMOIDAL
  Pertaining to expansions of the ethmoid bone or
• PARETHMOID
  Near or beside the ethmoid bone or cartilage; -- applied especially to a pair of bones in the nasal region of some fishes, and to the ethmoturbinals in some higher animals. -- n.
• ECTETHMOID
  External to the ethmoid; prefrontal.
• SPHENETHMOIDAL
  Relating to the sphenoethmoid bone; sphenoethmoid.
• MESETHMOID
  Of or pertaining to the middle of the ethmoid region or ethmoid bone. -- n.
• SPHENETHMOID
  Of or pertaining to both the sphenoidal and the ethmoidal regions of the skull, or the sphenethmoid bone; sphenethmoidal. Sphenethmoid bone , a bone of the skull which surrounds the anterior end of the brain in many amphibia; the girdle bone.
• SUPRA-ETHMOID
  Above, or on the dorsal side of, the ethmoid bone or cartilage.