styloid process

American  

noun

Anatomy.

1. a long, spinelike process of a bone, especially the projection from the base of the temporal bone.

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Etymology

Origin of styloid process

First recorded in 1700–10

Example Sentences

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

The styloid process helps the hand bone lock into the wrist bones, allowing for greater amounts of pressure to be applied to the wrist and hand from a grasping thumb and fingers.

From BBC

The ulna terminates below in a head and a styloid process; these articulate with the two last bones of the first row of the carpus—viz., the cuneiform and pisiform.

From Project Gutenberg

Surgical Anatomy.—The most important landmarks in the region of the wrist are the styloid processes of the radius and ulna.

From Project Gutenberg

While an assistant draws up the skin as much as possible, the surgeon makes an accurate circular incision through the skin, about an inch below the styloid processes, just grazing the thenar and hypothenar eminences.

From Project Gutenberg