styloid

[stahy-loid]

adjective

Botany. resembling a style; slender and pointed.
Anatomy. pertaining to a styloid process.

Origin of styloid

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

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Examples from the Web for styloid

Historical Examples of styloid

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
Ligament wanting; shell gaping, with a styloid apophysis in the umbonal cavities.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 16, Slice 1
Various
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

British Dictionary definitions for styloid

styloid

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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styloid in Medicine

styloid

[stī′loid′]

Of or relating to any of several slender pointed bone processes, especially the spine that projects from the base of the temporal bone.