styloid process
nounAnatomy.
a long, spinelike process of a bone, especially the projection from the base of the temporal bone.
Origin of styloid process
1First recorded in 1700–10
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How to use styloid process 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 BellTo 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 MilesA styloid process is more or less distinctly visible in the Chimpanzees.
A Hand-book to the Primates, Volume 2 (of 2) | Henry O. Forbes
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