styloid
[ stahy-loid ]
/ ˈstaɪ lɔɪd /
adjective
Botany. resembling a style; slender and pointed.
Anatomy. pertaining to a styloid process.
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Example sentences from the Web for styloid
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 BellA styloid process is more or less distinctly visible in the Chimpanzees.
A Hand-book to the Primates, Volume 2 (of 2)|Henry O. ForbesLigament wanting; shell gaping, with a styloid apophysis in the umbonal cavities.
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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Medical definitions for styloid
styloid
[ stī′loid′ ]
n.
Of or relating to any of several slender pointed bone processes, especially the spine that projects from the base of the temporal bone.
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