ethmoid : Idioms & Phrases

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Ethmoid bone

  • noun one of the eight bones of the cranium; a small bone filled with air spaces that forms part of the eye sockets and the nasal cavity
    ethmoid.
WordNet
  • (Anat.), a bone of complicated structure through which the olfactory nerves pass out of the cranium and over which they are largely distributed.
Webster 1913

ethmoid sinus

  • noun a sinus of the meatuses of the nasal cavity (behind the bridge of the nose)
    ethmoidal sinus; sinus ethmoidales.
WordNet

supra-ethmoid

Su`pra-eth"moid adjective
Definitions
  1. (Anat.) Above, or on the dorsal side of, the ethmoid bone or cartilage.
Webster 1913