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styloid, a. Anat. and Zool.|ˈstaɪlɔɪd| [ad. mod.L. styloid-es, a. Gr. στῡλοειδής (Galen) like a style, f. στῦλο-ς pillar: see -oid. Cf. F. styloïde.] Resembling a style in shape; styliform. Applied chiefly to several slender pointed processes of bone, e.g. the spine that projects from the base of the temporal bone.
[1615Crooke Body of Man 917 Which runneth from the processe called Styloides vnto the fourth bone of the wrest. 1684Blancard's Phys. Dict., Styloeides, are Processes of Bone fashioned backward like a Pencil, fastened into the Basis of the Skull itself.] 1709Phil. Trans. XXVII. 143 Two Styloid Processes. 1822J. Parkinson Outl. Oryctol. 72 The styloid projecting axis rises from a depression in the centre. 1846Owen in Rep. Brit. Assoc. i. 237 A styloid piece of the os hyoïdes. 1873G. Fleming tr. Chauveau's Comp. Anat. Dom. Anim. 54 By its inferior extremity, the styloid bone is united either to the styloid nucleus or the styloid cornu. 1897Proc. Zool. Soc. 377 Styloglossus.—This..is by far the best developed of all the styloid muscles in Carnivora. |