Word Meanings - PARETHMOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

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• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• CARTILAGE
  A translucent, elastic tissue; gristle. Note: Cartilage contains no vessels, and consists of a homogeneous, intercellular matrix, in which there are numerous minute cavities, or capsules, containing protoplasmic cells, the cartilage corpuscul. See
• HIGHER-UP
  A superior officer or official; -- used chiefly in pl.
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• BESIDE
  1. At the side of; on one side of. "Beside him hung his bow." Milton. 2. Aside from; out of the regular course or order of; in a state of deviation from; out of. have done enough To put him quite beside his patience. Shak. 3. Over and
• 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.
• HIGHERING
  Rising higher; ascending. In ever highering eagle circles. Tennyson.
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• NASALLY
  In a nasal manner; by the nose.
• APPLICATORILY
  By way of application.
• NASALIZE
  To render nasal, as sound; to insert a nasal or sound in.
• BONESET
  A medicinal plant, the thoroughwort . Its properties are diaphoretic and tonic.
• NASALITY
  The quality or state of being nasal.
• APPLICATE
  Applied or put to some use. Those applicate sciences which extend the power of man over the elements. I. Taylor. Applicate number , one which applied to some concrete case. -- Applicate ordinate, right line applied at right angles to the axis of
• APPLICATION
  1. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. 2. The thing applied. He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. Johnson. 3. The act of applying as a means; the
• BESIDES
  Over and above; separate or distinct from; in addition to; other than; else than. See Beside, prep., 3, and Syn. under Beside. Besides your cheer, you shall have sport. Shak.
• ESPECIALLY
  In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree.
• REGIONAL
  Of or pertaining to a particular region; sectional.
• APPLIABLE
  Applicable; also, compliant. Howell.
• SPHENOETHMOIDAL
  Sphenethmoid.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• ALIETHMOID; ALIETHMOIDAL
  Pertaining to expansions of the ethmoid bone or
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• WHETTLEBONES
  The vertebræ of the back. Dunglison.
• PHOTIC REGION
  The uppermost zone of the sea, which receives the most light.
• FIBROCARTILAGE
  A kind of cartilage with a fibrous matrix and approaching fibrous connective tissue in structure. -- Fi`bro*car`ti*lag"i*nous, a.
• INAPPLICABILITY
  The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.
• RACKABONES
  A very lean animal, esp. a horse.
• 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.