Word Meanings - POSTGLENOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Situated behind the glenoid fossa of the temporal bone.

Related words: (words related to POSTGLENOID)

• GLENOIDAL
  Glenoid.
• GLENOID
  Having the form of a smooth and shallow depression; sockas, the glenoid cavity, or fossa, of the scapula, in which the head of the humerus articulates.
• TEMPORALNESS
  Worldliness. Cotgrave.
• TEMPORALTY
  1. The laity; secular people. Abp. Abbot. 2. A secular possession; a temporality.
• SITUATE
  To place. Landor.
• SITUATE; SITUATED
  1. Having a site, situation, or location; being in a relative position; permanently fixed; placed; located; as, a town situated, or situate, on a hill or on the seashore. 2. Placed; residing. Pleasure situate in hill and dale. Milton. Note: Situate
• 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
• FOSSANE
  A species of civet resembling the genet.
• BEHIND
  1. On the side opposite the front or nearest part; on the back side of; at the back of; on the other side of; as, behind a door; behind a hill. A tall Brabanter, behind whom I stood. Bp. Hall. 2. Left after the departure of, whether this be by
• FOSSA
  A pit, groove, cavity, or depression, of greater or less depth; as, the temporal fossa on the side of the skull; the nasal fossæ containing the nostrils in most birds.
• BEHINDHAND
  1. In arrears financially; in a state where expenditures have exceeded the receipt of funds. 2. In a state of backwardness, in respect to what is seasonable or appropriate, or as to what should have been accomplished; not equally forward with some
• TEMPORALLY
  In a temporal manner; secularly. South.
• 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
• SITUATION
  1. Manner in which an object is placed; location, esp. as related to something else; position; locality site; as, a house in a pleasant situation. 2. Position, as regards the conditions and circumstances of the case. A situation of the greatest
• POSTGLENOID
  Situated behind the glenoid fossa of the temporal bone.
• 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.