styloid

[ stahy-loid ]

/ ˈstaɪ lɔɪd /

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adjective

Botany. resembling a style; slender and pointed.

Anatomy. pertaining to a styloid process.

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Origin of styloid

From the New Latin word styloīdēs, dating back to 1605–15. See style, -oid

Words nearby styloid

stylobate, stylograph, stylographic, stylography, stylohyoid, styloid, styloid process, stylolite, stylometry, stylophone, stylopize

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How to use styloid in a sentence

The ulna should be cut obliquely, leaving the base of the styloid process, and removing all the cartilage-covered portion.
A Manual of the Operations of Surgery|Joseph Bell
The radial styloid is displaced forward, upward, and to the radial side, and the ulnar styloid may be torn off.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition.|Alexander Miles
To inject iodoform, the needle is inserted immediately below the radial or the ulnar styloid process.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition.|Alexander Miles
Ligament wanting; shell gaping, with a styloid apophysis in the umbonal cavities.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 16, Slice 1|Various

A styloid process is more or less distinctly visible in the Chimpanzees.
A Hand-book to the Primates, Volume 2 (of 2)|Henry O. Forbes

British Dictionary definitions for styloid

styloid

/ (ˈstaɪlɔɪd) /

adjective

resembling a stylus

anatomy of or relating to a projecting process of the temporal bone

Word Origin for styloid

C18: from New Latin styloides, from Greek stuloeidēs like a stylus; influenced also by Greek stulos pillar

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