Word Meanings - SUPRA-ETHMOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Above, or on the dorsal side of, the ethmoid bone or cartilage.

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• 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
• 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.
• DORSALLY
  On, or toward, the dorsum, or back; on the dorsal side of; dorsad.
• ABOVEBOARD
  Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception. "Fair and aboveboard." Burke. Note: This expression is said by Johnson to have been borrowed from gamesters, who, when they change their cards, put their hands
• ABOVESAID
  Mentioned or recited before.
• ABOVE-MENTIONED; ABOVE-NAMED
  Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.
• ABOVEDECK
  On deck; and hence, like aboveboard, without artifice. Smart.
• ETHMOID
  The ethmoid bone.
• DORSAL
  Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral. Pertaining to the surface naturally inferior,
• ABOVE-CITED
  Cited before, in the preceding part of a book or writing.
• DORSALE
  See N
• ABOVE
  1. In or to a higher place; higher than; on or over the upper surface; over; -- opposed to below or beneath. Fowl that may fly above the earth. Gen. i. 20. 2. Figuratively, higher than; superior to in any respect; surpassing; beyond; higher in
• SPHENOETHMOIDAL
  Sphenethmoid.
• ALIETHMOID; ALIETHMOIDAL
  Pertaining to expansions of the ethmoid bone or
• FIBROCARTILAGE
  A kind of cartilage with a fibrous matrix and approaching fibrous connective tissue in structure. -- Fi`bro*car`ti*lag"i*nous, a.
• 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.