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
About 4 percent of the population has an elongated styloid process — considered to be longer than about an inch — but only 4 percent of them develop a problem as a result.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2015
The scaphoid and lunate bones articulate directly with the distal end of the radius, whereas the triquetrum bone articulates with a fibrocartilaginous pad that spans the radius and styloid process of the ulna.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Its entrance is located on the outside base of the skull, anteromedial to the styloid process.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
When reduction is complete, the deformity disappears, and the two styloid processes regain their normal positions relative to one another.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
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