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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That scan revealed a styloid process that was just over an inch long.
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 shaft portions of both the ulna and radius have an interosseous border, whereas the distal ends of each bone have a pointed styloid process.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The styloglossus originates on the styloid bone, and allows upward and backward motion.
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 Miles, Alexander
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