styloid
Americanadjective
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Botany. resembling a style; slender and pointed.
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Anatomy. pertaining to a styloid process.
adjective
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resembling a stylus
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anatomy of or relating to a projecting process of the temporal bone
Etymology
Origin of styloid
From the New Latin word styloīdēs, dating back to 1605–15. See style, -oid
Example Sentences
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Eagle syndrome occurs when a piece of bone called a styloid process, which extends from the skull into the ear, presses on or irritates adjacent structures, including the glossopharyngeal nerve.
From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2015
Other tests confirmed the diagnosis and suggested that she was a candidate for styloid surgery.
From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2015
The shaft portions of both the ulna and radius have an interosseous border, whereas the distal ends of each bone have a pointed styloid process.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
The lateral end of the radius has a pointed projection called the styloid process of the radius.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
The carpus is carried to the radial side by the upward rotation of the distal fragment, and the radial styloid is as high, or even higher, than that of the ulna.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
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