Word Meanings - ETHMOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The ethmoid bone.

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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.
• 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.