Word Meanings - PETROMASTOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to the petrous and mastoid parts of the temporal bone, periotic.
Related words: (words related to PETROMASTOID)
- TEMPORALNESS
Worldliness. Cotgrave. - TEMPORALTY
1. The laity; secular people. Abp. Abbot. 2. A secular possession; a temporality. - MASTOIDITIS
Inflammation in the mastoid process of the temporal bone. - MASTOIDAL
See MASTOID - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - TEMPORALITY
1. The state or quality of being temporary; -- opposed to perpetuity. 2. The laity; temporality. Sir T. More. 3. That which pertains to temporal welfare; material interests; especially, the revenue of an ecclesiastic proceeding from - PERIOTIC
Surrounding, or pertaining to the region surrounding, the internal ear; as, the periotic capsule. -- n. - PETROUS
See PETROSAL (more info) 1. Like stone; hard; stony; rocky; as, the petrous part of the temporal bone. Hooper. - TEMPORALLY
In a temporal manner; secularly. South. - MASTOID
Resembling the nipple or the breast; -- applied specifically to a process of the temporal bone behind the ear. Pertaining to, or in the region of, the mastoid process; mastoidal. - TEMPORAL
Of or pertaining to the temple or temples; as, the temporal bone; a temporal artery. Temporal bone, a very complex bone situated in the side of the skull of most mammals and containing the organ of hearing. It consists of an expanded squamosal - STYLOMASTOID
Of or pertaining to the styloid and mastoid processes of the temporal bone. - SALTPETROUS
Pertaining to saltpeter, or partaking of its qualities; impregnated with saltpeter. - STERNOMASTOID
Of or pertaining to the sternum and the mastoid process. - PARAMASTOID
Situated beside, or near, the mastoid portion of the temporal bone; paroccipital; -- applied especially to a process of the skull in some animals. - SUPRATEMPORAL
Situated above the temporal bone or temporal fossa. -- n. - SUPERTEMPORAL
That which is more than temporal; that which is eternal. - PRETEMPORAL
Situated in front of the temporal bone. - EXTEMPORAL
Extemporaneous; unpremeditated. B. Jonson. -- Ex*tem"po*ral*ly, adv. - POST-TEMPORAL
Situated back of the temporal bone or the temporal region of the skull; -- applied especially to a bone which usually connects the supraclavicle with the skull in the pectoral arch of fishes. -- n. - INFRATEMPORAL
Below the temple; below the temporal bone.