| 释义 |
mesopterygoid Zool.|mɛsəʊˈptɛrɪgɔɪd|
[f. meso- + pterygoid.]
1. In full mesopterygoid process: In birds, the part of the pterygoid which articulates with the palatine bone or the basipterygoid process of the splenoid, or with both.
1875W. K. Parker in Encycl. Brit. III. 706/2 ‘Meso-pterygoid process’. Ibid. 711/1 All the Schizognathæ, except the Fowl tribe, have ‘meso-pterygoids’.
b. mesopterygoid fossa: see quot.
1881Mivart Cat iii. 70 The very considerable space included between the two pterygoid plates is called the meso⁓pterygoid fossa, and that is single and median.
2. In teleostean fishes, a thin bony lamina in the skull, which fits against the upper edge of the pterygoid.
1890in Syd. Soc. Lex. |