sphenoid : Idioms & Phrases

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Sphenoid bone

  • noun butterfly-shaped bone at the base of the skull
    sphenoid; os sphenoidale.
WordNet
  • (Anat.), an irregularly shaped bone in front of the occipital in the base of the skull of the higher vertebrates. It is composed of several fetal bones which become united the adult. See Alisphenoid, Basisphenoid, Orbitosphenoid, Presphenoid.
Webster 1913

sphenoid fontanel

  • noun the irregularly shaped area on either side of the cranium where the frontal bone and the anterior tip of the parietal bone and the temporal bone and the greater wing of the sphenoid bone meet; corresponds to the pterion when bones have ossified
    sphenoidal fontanel; sphenoid fontanel; sphenoidal fontanelle.
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sphenoid fontanelle

  • noun the irregularly shaped area on either side of the cranium where the frontal bone and the anterior tip of the parietal bone and the temporal bone and the greater wing of the sphenoid bone meet; corresponds to the pterion when bones have ossified
    sphenoidal fontanel; sphenoid fontanel; sphenoidal fontanelle.
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